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...vast extent of monopoly in certain fields. According to figures given by him, the United States Steel Corporation controls one half to two-thirds of the iron ore of the country, the Mellon family controls 90 per cent of the aluminum ore, and that seven-eighths of the chewing-gum in the United States is manufactured by Wrigley. He also said that one per cent of the banks of the country control more capital than the other 99 per cent combined...
...friends before further damage can be done. During the game, handicapped by the pain in his hand, he fails to come up to the expectations of Western cohorts, in fact, he drops a last minute pass that would have won for dear old Western. For the benefit of the gum-chewing habitues of Boston's second balconies, however, the ending is a happy...
Philip Knight Wrigley (gum...
...last week, First National nonetheless had reason to be satisfied with its advertising trick. Captain Ayers, who saw the picture while waiting for claimants to appear, pronounced it authentic and ingenious, complimented Actor Stone, pointed out that his underlings, unlike Captain Webb's, are forbidden to chew gum. Penthouse (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Cinemaddicts who have never been there must have confused ideas about Manhattan. Lady for a Day exhibits the city as a paradise for addle-headed apple vendors. Bureau of Missing Persons show's gentle detectives tenderly dissuading vague citizens from intentional amnesia (see above). In Penthouse...
Ever since last summer's campaign Franklin Roosevelt & friends have felt the need of a magazine through which the New Deal could be expounded and illustrated to the masses. Both Mr. & Mrs. Roosevelt wrote for the gum-chewing Macfadden Press. After inauguration the Roosevelt secretariat was encouraged to talk by radio and write for publication. Professor Moley was most prolific, turning out a "State of the Nation" colyum for the McNaught syndicate, less readable but more helpful than Democrat Al Smith's monthly pieces in the New Outlook. In elaborating their plans last week, Backers Astor & Harriman...