In 1921, the Curtiss Candy Company refashioned its Kandy Kake into the Baby Ruth. The bar was a staple of the Chicago-based company for some seven decades. Curtiss was purchased by Nabisco in 1981. In 1990, RJR Nabisco sold the Curtiss brands to Nestle. nestlÃ©
Toilets manufactured in the 1980s use 3.5 gallons per flush, and models manufactured prior to that use even more, between 5 and 7 gallons per flush. When you consider the average person flushes five times per day, this can account for a considerable amount of water usage, particularly in multiperson households. Every toilet manufactured since 1994 uses a maximum of 1.6 gallons per flush. Some newer models use as little as 1.28 gallons per flush. While early models used to draw complaints about their poor flushing capabilities, low-flush toilets now flush just as well as their older, water-wasting counterparts.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the flushed water from toilets accounts for almost 30 percent of a household's total indoor water use. Old toilets use more water than new toilets. Flushing a toilet used 7 gallons of water or more per flush, before the 1950s. As recently as the 1980s, toilets still used about 3.5 gallons of water for each flush. In 1995, federal law mandated that all new toilets in the United States can use only up to 1.6 gallons of water per flush.