American candy entrepreneur and founder of Mars Candies who, despite childhood polio limiting his physical ability, built the company that created the Milky Way bar — pioneering the mass-market American candy industry.
Invented the Milky Way bar as the first successful filled candy bar sold at mass market scale — demonstrating that a structured, shelf-stable candy product could reach national distribution — founding the Mars candy business that became one of the largest private companies in the world.
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