Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sugar consumption unmasks the subterfuge. Had not Leon Henderson's stamp plan already nullified their small hoardings, it could still be shown that every housewife in the land could stock her pantry, fill her attic and basement, and still not equal the consumption of the soft drink, chewing gum, and whiskey industries. Each of them takes an average of a billion tons of sugar off the market annually. Hoarding is the chief cause of the sugar shortage. But industrial hoarders, not housewives, are the culprits...
Powerful industrial sugar consumers with influence in Washington have brought the nation to the verge of sugar rationing. The hoards of the soft drink, chewing gum, and commercial whiskey industries should be poured on the market before this happens. In sugar rationing, as in automobile production, rubber, and aluminum the business as usual crowd is hard at work losing...
Another time Sam watched Black Cawper, the local strong man, fight an almost Icelandic battle on the moor, from dusk to dawn, with a supernatural blond giant. When Black lost, he said: "Ba gum, Ah'd like to tak' thee hoam and hev a pup off'n thee!" Black's son Ian was the first blond Cawper in generations...
...over and the government expenditures sag from something over fifty billions of dollars to a meagre ten billion. The big post-war problem will be filling in that forty billion dollar gap. Unless there is enough private investment and consumer spending to fill it in, we will experience a gum-shoe stagnation that will make 1929 look like prosperity without the corner. We won't be able to fill it in unless new outlets for investment are opened up and business is willing to risk the capital--which, in turn, depends on effective consumer demand. You can't have consumer...
...This county wouldn't hang Lucrezia Borgia," a reporter (Lynne Overman) informs Roxie Hart (Ginger Rogers), redheaded, gum-chewing, wisecracking dancer, whose husband has just shot her lover and pinned the murder on her. Convinced that she can't have a career and be innocent, too, Roxie agrees to stand trial and let the newspapers "put her right up there" with Peaches Browning, Queen Marie, Ruth Snyder and Red Grange...