Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chemical engineer he got a job in 1912 as a laboratory-tester at Sears, Roebuck &. Co. Donald's first job was to analyze boys' pants and chewing gum, which he frequently found together. A man of rare patience, he rose slowly but thoroughly as a merchandising know-it-all, reaching the vice-presidency in 1930. He had long since become the foremost mass buyer in the U. S. From 1928 through 1938 he bought merchandise that sold for $4,500,000,000-some 135,000 items, from tin cups to tractors, from diapers to tombstones...
Dame Rumor raced swiftly through the Yard last night spreading far and wide a false story that Mother Advocate's simply divine party, scheduled for this afternoon, was to be called off because R. Bowden Broadwater '42, Pegasus and patron of the ballet, had swallowed his chewing gum...
Broadwater did swallow his gum, he chokedly admitted last night, and will probably be unable to attend the extravaganza, which is being held in honor of Miles. Irina Baronova, Tamara Toumanova, and Tatiana Riabouchinska in the Bow Street chambers of the magazine...
Urge. In Manhattan, Howard Walpin, 17, stood near an elevator in R. H. Macy's department store chewing wads of gum, sticking them in the hair of long-haired children who passed by, laughing joyfully. Said he in court: "I just get the urge...
...Radio's Number One Boy Jack Benny, who attracts upwards of 11,000,000 families of listeners for NBC each week. Known as Dear Mom, the CBS show is patterned after Ed Streeter's Dere Mable letters of World War I, is sponsored by Wrigley's gum...