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...York companies that have made a mint from nickel candy decided last week that life would be even sweeter under one corporate wrapper. Life Savers Corp., whose 14 candy flavors earned $2,750,000 last year, agreed to merge with Beech-Nut Packing Co., third biggest U.S. chewing-gum maker (after Wrigley, American Chicle). The merger, still to be formally approved by directors and stockholders, was a logical move for both companies. Life Savers was eager to expand. Beech-Nut, which also makes baby food, coffee and peanut butter, had been unable to fatten its profit margin: only...
Slugs, Slugs, Slugs. At first Leverone felt like a pullet plunging into a weasel den. A Dartmouth graduate ('06, Phi Beta Kappa) and a successful real-estate operator who was also secretary of Chicago's Crime Commission, he found a business controlled by sharpers and racketeers; chewing-gum sticks were cut in half, sold for a penny apiece; undersized chocolate bars cost a nickel; peanuts costing 8? per Ib. dribbled out at the rate of six per penny. And when the machines ran out of merchandise, they returned nothing but a hollow, insulting clank. Leverone hired an engineer...
...With Gum & Jive. If measured by the narrowest gauge, Freud today is a prophet with little honor in his own country. Among Vienna's 65 psychiatrists, 14 are Freudians (including six who practice psychoanalysis); Adler's adherents number four, and Jung's two. In Germany Freud's influence on psychiatry is resisted; in other walks of life it is omnipresent but hidden. Says a German-Jewish sociologist: "Naziism and anti-Freudianism have the same deep roots in the German people. Why, if they accepted Freud, they would have to stop beating their children." In Switzerland...
Died. Horatio M. Adams, 102, who, with his father and brother, helped to introduce chewing gum into the U.S., founded the firm of Adams & Sons Co. in 1869, which was later merged into American Chicle Co. (Chiclets, Dentyne); in Somerville...
...back-room dentist took out six teeth, but ran into trouble on a seventh. "My gums bled and swelled up so much he couldn't grind any more," she recalls. Despite her pain, the dentist extracted full payment from her before she left. Agnes Jones had to go back again and again to have her gums treated. When she finally got her plates, they fitted so badly that her mouth swelled unbearably. Not until another dentist had her mouth X-rayed was it found that the back-room dentist had broken a tooth and ground it below the gum...