David McConnell started the California Perfume Company (CPC) in 1886. Today the company is known as Avon, which he named after his favorite playwright William Shakespeare, and Stratford on Avon.

When Nylons first went on sale in the United States in 1940, four million pairs were sold in only a few days.

Our oldest radio broadcasts of the 1930s have already travelled past 100,000 stars.

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