Word: gum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...willing, and intend to turn over all my assets to liquidate the remaining amounts which I may owe so that I may. unencumbered and unmolested, devote myself from now on to the interest of making better motion pictures." ¶ William Wrigley Jr. Co. declared four dividends on its chewing gum business- one payable in each of the next four months-at the extraordinary rate of 26 30/95? per share. Not so complicated as it looks, the new rate will result in stockholders getting a monthly dividend of 25? per share as formerly. The odd addi- tion merely represents...
...handful of clocks, or perhaps a gigantic hourglass. Thanks to a far-seeing director, no mechanical movement is in evidence. Even the visitors to the building are restricted in activity, and are content to plop their beer-saturated bodies into the chairs, and curtail the movement of their gum-chewing jaws...
...first his grandfather and then his father were Scandinavian vice-consuls, he studied painting at Denmark's Royal Academy, exhibited a few academic landscapes, interiors and nudes. In 1928 he arrived in the U. S. to wangle odd jobs, worked up to testing the water content of chewing gum in a Long Island City chiclets factory, finally in 1929 to an art department job in Manhattan's Erwin. Wasey Advertising Company. Last January he was discharged...
Some C.C.C. camps might receive the free tobacco, chewing gum and picture shows of which Corporal G. F. Baker speaks in his letter "Raw Deal" (TIME, June 26), but ours doesn't. It is true, however, that our laundry is done at no cost to us. Any time we're free to we can borrow a bucket, heat some water in it over an open fire, and wash our clothes...
...answer to G. F. Baker's letter in June 26 issue, the "socalled Tree Soldier'' does not get his tobacco, laundry, chewing gum and shows free. Mr. Baker should be around here sometime and see how the laundry is done "free," with every man draped over a wash tub and wash board...