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...Labor Department's list of 784 commodities, silver's importance is rated at .07 of 1%. The chewing gum industry's output is twice as valuable as silver mining. Silver though supported, productionwise is only as important as grape jelly, or wire nails, or packers' prime tallow, or anhydrous ammonia. Silver is less important than linoleum, glue, leather gloves, strawberries, spaghetti, nuts...
...Gum-chewing Senator Donahey took on only one Senate chore. After a squad of Senators had turned down the chairmanship of the TVA investigation, he took it, kept order with a Boy Scout knife which he used alternately as a toothpick, nail-clipper, and gavel...
...biggest fortunes in the U. S. A roll call of his paper's stockholders reads like a list of Dun & Bradstreet's AA ratings. Some of them: John Hay ("Jock") Whitney; Marshall Field III; Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.'s George Huntington Hartford II; Chewing Gum's Philip Knight Wrigley; Marion Rosenwald Stern and her brother, Lessing Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Lawyer Garrard Bigelow Winston, Under Secretary of the Treasury in Calvin Coolidge's Administration; Producer Dwight Deere Wiman; Columnist Dorothy Thompson...
...Ziskin made it clear that only skilled doctors and dentists could apply the healing salves, for the body's hormone balance is very delicate. Sex hormone toothpastes, he warned, might gum up the body's works far worse than gingivitis...
Only recently Gene Autry, now the dandiest, gaudiest, most popular singing cowboy in all Hollywood, turned down an offer of $3,000 to endorse a cigaret, because he does not smoke and his vast fandom knows it. But he gum-chews like a kraut cutter. So last Sunday night Gene Autry went to work at $1,000 a week on a new half-hour radio show over CBS for Double Mint gum, replacing Wrigley's Gateway to Hollywood series of last year. First time out on radio's Melody Ranch, Gene lassoed the folks with...