Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business painfully pinched by code provisions. On General Johnson's desk last week lay a complaint from a business man in Columbus, Ga. which was typical of the little fellow's troubles. Tom (not Thomas) Huston was asking to be relieved from the operation of the chewing gum code. Tom Huston has not always been a gummaker. He used to be in the peanut business. Last year his gum salesmen spent so much time explaining the change that Tom Huston finally wrote a booklet : What Happened to Tom Huston - The Whole Story in a Peanut Shell...
...promptly started afresh with Tom Huston System, merchandisers of "Julep Gums." Having no capital with which to start a gum factory, he arranged to have his product made under contract by Walla-Walla Chewing Gum Co. of Knoxville, Tenn. Almost before he knew what had happened Tom Huston found himself forced in under the Chewing Gum Manufacturers' Code which contains this clause: "No member of the Industry shall guarantee the sale of his product by the purchaser thereof...
...Minnesota mortgage moratorium has given its approval to the new statute for price fixing in the milk industry. It is impossible to read Justice Roberts' majority opinion, with its weighty talk of the due process clause, without feeling that the due process clause is only another name for gum elastic; the things which the court says in favor of price fixing are justified by the same clause which once defeated child labor legislation...
...able to hold its 35th exhibition in Manhattan. Months ago each artist bought little slabs of ivory, preferably from tusks of a live elephant. The ivory was smoothed with pumice stone, soaked in water until pliable. When pressed stiff and flat each slab was cut for size. Omitting the gum, glycerine or honey the ancients used to make paint stick to chicken skin, mutton bone, vellum or copper, 20th Century miniaturists daubed on pure water colors. Then they had something they could sell, if a portrait, for from $200 to $800, if a still life, for $25 up. Last week...
...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...