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Alfred Fuller
Alfred Fuller
Fuller Brush legitimized door-to-door selling, with its salesmen visiting nearly nine out of ten American homes in the first half of the last century. In Disney's Three Little Pigs (1933), the wolf dresses up as a Fuller Brush man to get inside the house.

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