Word: ks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...racing addicts jam-packed the Park-from the 40 ? bleacher section reserved for colored folks to the ;ony terrace boxes atop the clubhouse. Everyone talked Stagehand-from Fred Snite Jr., the famed iron lung patient who, with the aid of a periscope and mirrors, watched the races from Ks ambulance railer parked midway down the homestretch, and the sport writer who bet his salary on Stagehand, to Seminole Indians who were lured from their nearby reservation to do a war dance in the infield for Mr. Widener's customers...
...will not be elected, is her son President Philip Knight Wrigley, 38. His chief business ability is in advertising ; outside of the office his consuming interests are in mechanics, electricity, photography. He repairs his three Packards and three Duesenbergs by himself, likewise tinkers his radios. Wrigley's P. Ks. were named for him and not because of the slogan: "Packed tight; Kept right." He managed to sell Australians gum by changing the name to "chewing sweets for "gum" was connected with "glue." He has not yet solved the problem of making Orientals chew gum instead of betel...