Did you know that there are more than six hundred billion Lego bricks in the world? The Lego company ____ founded in Denmark by Ole Kirk Kristiansen. It ____ as a factory that made all sorts of things out of wood: doors, windows, cabinets, cupboards, coffins, and carts. With scraps of wood left over ____ his larger projects, Kristiansen made toys. After a ____ years, when the stock market in New York crashed, the factory suffered. The farmers who had been Kristiansen's customers could no ____ afford to pay for large carpentry projects. To adapt, he decided to ____ on making useful household items like ladders and ironing boards. He ____ made toys. Before long, he was invited to ____ his toys to a trade fair. That year, ____ decided to concentrate entirely on toy-making. He changed the name of ____ company to "Lego," from a Danish phrase which means "play well." For the next ten years, the company did very well selling wooden toys. One day, Kristiansen watched a demonstration of an injection-molding machine. He bought ____, and it arrived from England the following summer. An injection- molding machine is used to make ____ out of plastic. Soon ____, Lego introduced Automatic Binding Bricks, an early version of today's Lego bricks. They were based on a building brick ____ by a British company called Kiddicraft that had modeled their brick on a rubber one made by a ____ British toy company, Minibrix. Within two years, half of ____ toys the Lego company sold were made of plastic. They discontinued the ____ Automatic Binding Brick. Their Lego bricks were ____ in popularity, but they still faced some problems. They did ____ lock as well as they should, and they weren't versatile enough. The company ____ to work on them. A few years later, they patented the design of the brick we know today.

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