Other extracurricular uses became more common: replacing or augmenting TV antennae , breaking into cars , rescuing misplaced keys and rings and baseballs from sewer grates. The premise of these how-tos is familiar: Of course you have wire hangers and of course they are awaiting better use. They are, always, just sort of there.
Magnus told his friend that his father, just like his father before him, manufactured and sold wire hangers. His friend was taken aback. In his childhood naivete, he had never considered that they were manufactured or sold at all. The eldest Milton and his business partner, Roy Brekle, had previously been reselling used bottle caps to soda makers.
Not long ago, the Magnuses had more domestic company in the industry. At least two others, Indy Hanger and U. Hanger Co.
The George W. Bush administration, which had declined such action in its first term, imposed tariffs on Chinese wire hanger imports. In , just Yet imports themselves still totaled a sizable 1. In , two Tijuana-based importers received jail time in California for similarly rebranding Chinese-made, US-bound hangers as products of Mexico.
Two years ago, a crackdown on one such fraudulent manufacturer in Southeast Asia disrupted the usual supply chain.
Suddenly without a significant source, importers flooded legitimate makers with orders, creating months-long shipment backups. Did prices go up as a result?
Despite their seeming disposability, discarding wire hangers can be complicated. One estimate from the US Department of Commerce puts the annual number deposited in landfills at 3. But doing so on a mass scale is difficult given that they are so often consumed incidentally and that their shape and coating can be problematic for the machines often used in mass recycling programs. In an increasingly eco-conscious consumer culture, this has created an opening for competition.
In the late s, an entrepreneur named J. At times, others have cropped up made from corn and wheat. Which is not to say that wire hangers are completely insulated from outside pressures.
One unlikely place wire hangers have maintained their appeal is the well-appointed country residence of former D. Comics president Jenette Kahn located, appropriately, in Connecticut.
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