Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, one Chick Gum, Chinese cafeteria cook, was tossing flapjacks in the hurry of early trade one morning last week. Of one jack he lost control. Flapping high, it curved down into the open neck of the Gum undershirt. Chick Gum yowled, got a doctor...
...National League, however, there is a real rival for the chesty Yankees. Backed by the chewing-gum millions of William Wrigley Jr., Manager Joe McCarthy has built up a formidable combination. Said Bucky Harris after the Chicago Cubs had beaten his Detroit Tigers five straight games in spring training: "It is the greatest team I have ever seen on a baseball field." Harris has seen the Yankees. He has seen them at their best...
American Chicle Co., (Black Jack and Kis-Me gum, Sen Sen breathlets) net, $1,795,268. Previous year...
Other Possibilities. Outstanding among Chicago's industrialists, of course, is utilityman Samuel Insull. Possibly the baseball and gum interests of William Wrigley Jr., the stock market speculations of Arthur W. Cutten, the taxicab past of John D. Hertz (see BUSINESS) make them less available. No such considerations, however, would arise in connection with Thomas E. Wilson, packing house (Wilson & Co.) president, or Thomas E. Donnelley, "biggest" printer. Ideal from the standpoint of public spirit would be Julius Rosenwald, chairman of the board of Sears Roebuck, famed philanthropist (Chicago Industrial Museum, Jewish colonization in Russia, Negro schools and Negro...