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At New York's World's Fair in 1939, more than 7,000,000 people came to see her. Later she made personal appearances from coast to coast, and when her offspring was born, letters poured in from all over suggesting names. Then, in 1941, she was killed in a truck accident. But by then she was more than an individual; she was a symbol that lived on. Her name was Elsie, the Borden Co.'s cow.

Since the first Elsie died, eight others have taken her place, spreading the Borden name far & wide. One in every six Americans has seen one or another...

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