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Died. The Office of Price Administration, five years and six months old, in its heyday the controversial guardian of price controls on some 8,000,000 items from bubble gum to locomotives, once staffed with 235,000 volunteer workers in 5,561 local boards; by executive order of the President, after a long decline induced by progressive decontrol. OPA's heirs: Department of Agriculture (sugar and rice) ; Office of the Housing Expediter (rents); Department of Commerce (winding up OPA records); Department of Justice (pending enforcement cases...
...American children chew too much gum when they come to school. It isn't the gum-it is what the gum-chewing signifies. Gum-chewing in school is like a kid studying in an easy chair alongside the radio. . . . And cigarets. It is pitiful to go to some schools and see the children whip out packs of cigarets as they leave the building...
...ornaments for reservation Indians, who sold them to tourists as examples of native handicraft. While Leavens was Robbins' district sales manager in Chicago, he got an order to make similar trinkets for the Wrigley Co. A radio character named "Chief Wolfpaw, the Lone Wolf," sent them out for gum wrappers. Wrigley's was so snowed under with wrappers that it has never offered premiums since. But Robbins went on to become the biggest maker of box-top trinkets. From these and its other products (jewelry, name plates, badges and emblems) Robbins grosses some $3,000,000 a year...
...Moslems use rosaries of 99 beads (for the 99 names of Allah). Conversation strings, with less beads than the religious rosaries, have no religious significance; fingering them is a nervous outlet like smoking, gum chewing, scalp scratching...
...Many of the brokers chew gum to keep their throats moist. The throat is important here. When you want to buy or sell, you have to be able to attract attention. Another flurry starts. 'Sell one Sep fifteen. . . . Sell five Christmas. . . . Sell July one five, think of wife and kids.' Then suddenly the noise fades out, the waving of fingers stops...