I wonder if the silly putty industry has seen a drop off in sales with the dying newspaper industry. If I remember correctly, silly putty was originally a cleaning product to clean coal soot off of walls. Sales dropped off with the move to cleaner gas and electric furnaces, so the company switched to making it a novelty toy product in much smaller containers with a higher profit margin.
I wonder if the silly putty industry has seen a drop off in sales with the dying newspaper industry. If I remember correctly, silly putty was originally a cleaning product to clean coal soot off of walls. Sales dropped off with the move to cleaner gas and electric furnaces, so the company switched to making it a novelty toy product in much smaller containers with a higher profit margin.