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...Arthur H. du Grenier Co. of Haverhill, Mass, (vending machines for candy, gum, cigarets) has had to cut production 30-50%, employment one-third, not only because of the die-casting shortage but for lack of steel and of cobalt nickel for the magnet that rejects phony coins. Du Grenier has no defense business. Says Treasurer Bouchard: "We are very much worried about the future...
...able to gnaw the Axis, steeltough jaws are necessary and not rosy ones used to chewing gum. If you only knew how good and beautiful are the children of Rome and Berlin and how much poetry there is in the youth of Europe, then you wouldn't listen to your and our enemies...
...union leader last week made news by marching through a picket line. It was no slip of the foot. John P. Frey, 70-year-old arch-conservative of the A.F. of L.'s conservative hierarchy, had said he would, and by gum he did. The pickets were A.F. of L. machinists who had shut down eleven San Francisco shipyards in the midst of a $500,000,000 Naval building program and earned the combined wrath of Government and labor officials. But the violation of the picket line by white-haired John Frey did not break the "outlaw" strike. Nonstriking...
...products to the Beech-Nut line (beginning with jam which his sister came down to the plant and made). These new products are the key to Beech-Nut's rising profits, for today the cured meats account for less than 2% of earnings. Biggest money-maker is chewing gum, which Brother-in-law F. E. Barbour handles. Other big items are strained foods, coffee, peanut butter, soup. Dropped along the way are tomato juice (1940), biscuits (1940), ginger ale, fish bait...
...facial expressions to fit his moods: for dreamy music, "my eyes look far away and my jaw drops"; for speedier work, "I look like a fielder trying to catch a fly ball with the sun in his eyes." The No. 3 expression, unclassifiable, was for moments of hair-tossing, gum-chomping abandon, during which Drummer Krupa yelled over & over (he said): "Lyonnaise potatoes and some pork chops...