Word: gumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. John J. ("Jack") Donahue, 38, famed musicomedian and hoofer (Sunny, Rosalie, Sons o'Guns), magazine fictioneer (Letters of a Hoofer to his Ma), producer (Lost Sheep); after a chronic infection of the kidneys, sinus, heart had caused his collapse while playing Cincinnati in Sons o' Gum; at his home in Manhattan. Born in Charlestown, Mass., he began his theatrical career at 14 by appearing in local amateur nights. Subsequently medicine show entertainer, smalltime vaudeville dancer, he had his first big success in Sunny (1925). Despite the pain in his legs and feet, occasioned by the illness from which...
Truck Advts. Railway Express Agency added to its non-operating income, created a new advertising medium. For the first time, space on express trucks was sold to advertisers. On one side of all the company's 8,000-odd vehicles was slapped an advertisement for Wrigley's gum; on the other, for Chesterfield cigarets. Each space costs $3 per week. The advertising is being directed by Barron Collier, president of Barron G. Collier, Inc. This company has rights to almost all transportation media in the U. S., Mexico, Cuba, Canada. It places advertising in 85,000 cars with...
...Woven Fabrics wholly or in chief part by weight of silk in the gum, not degummed nor bleached, not less than 20 inches in width, weighing not more than seven pounds for each 100 yards thereof, imported for the purpose of being degummed, dyed and finished in Canada: ["B. P."] /71%, ["Intermediate"] 30%, ("General...
...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...
William E. Easterwood Jr. (colonel on Governor Dan Moody's staff) inherited wealth from his banker-father, made millions more from the southwest sales agency for Orbit gum. The Orbit business was bought by William Wrigley Jr., who continues to distribute it through the Easterwood agency. Touring Europe this summer with his wife, rich Col. Easterwood, publicity-loving, met Dieudonné Coste and Maurice Bellonte, offered them $25,000 if they would continue their Paris-New York flight to Dallas. According to one account, Col. Easterwood gave $75,000 to finance the entire trans-Atlantic flight, one-third...