Word: gums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Palm Sunday big, breezy William Wrigley Jr., Chicago gum tycoon, got an idea about cotton. On Monday he developed it. On Tuesday he announced that his company would (in effect) barter gum for cotton in the south, would use all sales receipts in that territory to buy up to 100,000,000 Ib. (200,000 bales) of cotton during the next eight months. The market price would be paid, provided it did not exceed 12? per Ib. Last week in the spot markets of the South cotton was selling around...
TIME mentioned the restrictions on cursing and smoking and might have included chewing gum, bobbed hair and movie shows. But there is another newsworthy restriction, one which we, in this locality, associate with Zion City even more closely than the blatant overseer himself. Many people carry the association in their minds because they have paid dearly for a bit of experience. Let unknowing motorists beware of the speed trap which is one of Zion's most productive institutions...
...slap at the general public: "The outlay for cosmetics, cigarets, chewing gum, are expenditures that are in no sense necessities and are distinctly in the luxury class. These luxury expenditures total over five and a half times the total cost of all non-government health services. The amount spent for tobacco alone is three times as much as that spent for physicians and the American people spend more for candy than they do for doctors...
...engage in such minstrel show chatter as: "What am a suicide pact?" And a bogus air enters during the scenes in which disillusioned reporters tell each other their troubles. The play has undeniable vitality, however, and provides a good deal of technical information on the inner workings of a gum-chewer sheetlet. Arthur Byron is masterful, makes completely credible the part of a tough, dogged newsman...
...snuff users are divided into two groups: 1) those who snuff snuff into their nostrils for a delightfully prolonged sneeze sensation; 2) those who place snuff between gum and cheek, leave it there for many a happy hour, sometimes chewing it, moving it about...