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Simmons Bedding Company

 * ... that during 18 years of ownership by a succession of private investment companies, Simmons Bedding Company debt increased from $164 million to $1.3 billion, leading it to bankruptcy restructuring?
 * ALT1:... that Simmons Bedding Company has dropped bowling balls on its mattresses in order to promote them?
 * ALT2:... that Simmons Bedding Company innovations enabled big reductions in the prices of wire spring mattresses in the 1870s and pocket-coil mattresses in the 1920s?
 * Reviewed: Swedish nuclear weapons program

5x expanded by Orlady (talk), Cmsthree (talk). Nominated by Orlady (talk) at 06:29, 11 February 2014 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg This article is a five-fold expansion and is new enough and long enough. The original and ALT1 hooks are supported by inline citations and I have struck ALT2 as being less interesting. I was planning to remove the DYKmake credit for Cmsthree as that editor's name does not appear in the edit history, but on looking at the talk page, I see that in fact that editor was much involved in the expansion. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:58, 18 February 2014 (UTC)