Co-Founder Of Slinky Company Dies At 90 »
Posted By TimALoftis 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & FinanceBetty James, who co-founded the company that made the Slinky and beat the odds as a single mother in the late 1950s to become a successful executive, has died. She was 90.
She died Thursday, said a spokeswoman for the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
In 1945, James and her husband at the time, Richard, founded the company that would later make Slinky, the toy for which she was inducted into the Toy Industry Hall of Fame in 2001. The coil-shaped toy which could go down stairs by walking end-over-end became a hit with children.
She took over management of James Industries Inc. 14 years after the company was founded, after her husband left her to follow a religious cult in Bolivia. Richard James died in 1974.
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Will13137 months, 2 weeks ago
It was a great toy.. as an only child it gave me many hours of fun....
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chevydog7 months, 2 weeks ago
Don't know why it gave me the dreaded *****. It wasn't anything close to illegal, immoral, or fattening.
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