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Edwin John Shoemaker
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Shoemaker designed the first La-Z-Boy reclining chair in 1928, using a sheet of plywood and a yard stick. The company sells more than $1 billion worth of the chairs each year. He died March 15 in Sun City, Ariz. He was 90.
From This is True for 15 March 1998
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