Word: gum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wasn't the sort of place people usually see a movie in. No boorish Moorish architecture, no chewing gum under the seats. Instead, the hall was a deep blue nave, immensely high and still, looped gracefully with golden galleries. And the images on the screen were not the sort one sees at the average alhambra. No Tammy, no Debbie, no winning of the West. Instead, a bear roamed and roared in a Mexican mansion and a regiment of French actors fought the American Civil War and a samurai disemboweled himself right there in front of everybody...
...Catalina. Irvine Ranch is the biggest job in Pereira's bulging portfolio, but it is crowded by others. On 22-mile-long Catalina Island, which Pereira is completely reorganizing for its owner, Chewing Gum Tycoon Philip K. Wrigley, the grand design leaves room for hardly any autos at all. Local transportation will be generally restricted to electric carts, which will have their own system of cartways, forbidden to automobiles. An electric tram will serve the principal city, Avalon (Pereira staffers are now in Europe studying various types of narrow-gauge railways), and the island will be dotted with small parks...
Sabotage began almost immediately. Coin box slots were stuffed with chewing gum or wax. Cables were cut or damaged with rifles, shotguns, dynamite and axes; a row of 22 telephone poles was neatly cut down with a power saw. Fortnight ago in St. Petersburg, a dynamite charge under a bridge ripped apart an 1800-wire cable, and last week 9,000 families in Lakeland lost phone service when seven cables were cut. Though supervisory people man telephone equipment and make repairs, sabotage often cuts off service to one area before it can be restored in another. Among the cut lines...
...some things there for the discount. The best place in the Square for cosmotics, however, is the Brattle Pharmacy, 41a Brattle St. Knowledgeable clerks show complete lines of everything, and beauty consultants from various manufacturers make occasional visits. Conveniently located College House Pharmacy has lots of perfume and gum, and cashes checks...
While they talk bravely of the future and are confident that old habits die hard, tobaccomen are hedging by diversifying their interests. U.S. Tobacco now makes candy too. Philip Morris has bought out Burma-Shave, Clark Chewing Gum and American Safety Razor (Personna, Pal, Gem). R. J. Reynolds has gone into several lines from fruit punch to packaging...