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...Federal Trade Commission examiner who inveighed against "regimentation of the baseball card-buying public." See THE LAW, The Bubble-Gum Trust...
...monopoly is a monopoly to the Federal Trade Commission, be it in oil, steel-or bubble gum. So in 1959 the FTC began unwrapping the sticky case of Brooklyn's Topps Chewing Gum, Inc., tycoon of the baseball trading cards that now sag the pockets of every acquisitive American boy (and tomboy) between the ages of five and 15. Last week FTC Examiner Herman Tocker capped 4,000 pages of testimony with a 113-page opinion finding Topps so tops that its competitors are overcome with "a sense of futility...
...What's more, says Mother Mary Ann, they have a new brother and/or sister due in September. One company that that's strictly milk and honey to is Borden's, which has just lined up the quints and their family to boost everything it sells from gum to beans, but mainly guess what. Elsie, move over...
...week, puffed a cloud of smoke at his U.S. counterpart, Adlai Stevenson, 64, and chuckled, "It's a Havana, of course, the best. Revolutionary!" Lately, however, Fedorenko has been indulging in a pretty counterrevolutionary bourgeois-capitalist deviation. In the Security Council, he has been seen chomping American chewing gum; and who knows, if word of that gets back to the Kremlin, Nikolai might wind up doubling his pleasure, doubling his fun, somewhere in outer Kazakhstan...
...longer or showed more zany inventiveness. The Rube Goldberg machines, a byproduct of his engineering background, made him rich and world-famous. All his designs were models of ludicrous ingenuity. In his automatic stamp-licker, a dwarf robot overturned a can of ants onto a page of postage stamps, gum side up; then they were licked up by an anteater that had been starved for three days...