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...Eastern city of the South." It boasts its 19 golf courses, its 28-story Magnolia building, its (oil-burning) spotlessness. But it was none of those things that put Dallas on the front page of every newspaper in the U. S. last week; it was Orbit chewing gum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Uphill Route | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

...business. Sometimes he uses industrial cinemas donated by prominent manufacturing concerns. Sometimes he has his corps of assistants perform a little drama on the stage intended to show the right and wrong way to do business. Classic Marchand example of commercial wrongheadedness is the case of Wrigley's chewing-gum when first introduced into England. Britons would not chew until the word gum?which signified nothing but raw rubber?was changed to "sweet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Coaching Capitals | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

...London in July 1891, and bought Angel-Cake in a shop where American cake and chewing gum were sold. With each slice of Angel-Cake one received the receipt for making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Hines Hailed | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

...often his whole meal; was what made him faint in the Cincinnati station. The doctor who examined him in Lawyer Klein's home diagnosed his condition as exhaustion caused by self-starvation. The Kleins fed their wandering friend (he used to mail the Klein children sticks of gum with a dime slipped under each wrapper), tried to put him to bed. He insisted on sleeping on a mattress, on the attic floor. Refreshed, he insisted he must go on from Cincinnati to Staunton, Va., Woodrow Wilson's birthplace. He refused a Pullman ticket, made the hot trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: End of an Idealist | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

William Wrigley, Jr., Co. reported the substantial six-months' net of $5,657,000, up $436,000 from 1929. Another big chewing gum purveyor, American Chicle Co. (Adams, Chiclets, Sen Sen Breath-lets), also showed increased earnings for first half: $1,081,000 net as against $1,039,000 last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Kindly Lights | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

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