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borden, gail

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Bor·den   (bôr'dn)   
American surveyor and inventor who developed condensed milk (1853) and other food products.
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Borden, Gail

American philanthropist, businessman, and inventor, who envisioned food concentrates as a means of safeguarding the human food supply. He was the first to develop a commercial method of condensing milk, and the dairy company founded by him (renamed Borden, Inc., in 1968) expanded and diversified to become a sizable conglomerate

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