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dietary supplements. They added cleaning products including Liquid
Organic Cleaner, to their core line of products in 1958. In 1959, the "American Way Association" began in the basements of the Van Andel and DeVos homes, and later that year "Amway Sales Corporation" was formed. A converted service
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Jay Van Andel was born on June 3, 1924, to James and
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officer. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant and trained crews for B-17 and B-29 bombers that reached the
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Van Andel's parents were devout
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