In the winter of 1920 Jack Goodman left the chilly bustle of New York on a humble errand. His destination: the small Massachusetts city of Leominster. His goal: to find a company to make celluloid dice. The product was mundane, but the stakes were high. His family's business produced small items, such as combs arid billiard balls, and had just landed a big dice contract. Ivory proved too brittle for the job. Unexpectedly, celluloid plastic-a second-rate replacement for wood and bone-proved the ideal material. So Goodman was sent to Leominster by train and rickety streetcar to find his family a supplier.
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