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Farmer Gehring, the biggest U.S. grower of mint, last week was in the midst of harvesting his highly profitable crop. From his 2,500 acres of spearmint and peppermint he expected to gross close to $600,000, almost double what the same acreage would yield in corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: A Good Rotation Crop | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...Buildings and Grounds Department, for instance, spends its time on jobs ranging from heating every building in the University to picking up Spearmint wrappers in Sever Quadrangle. Between these two extremes, it performs an infinite number of services of all shapes and sizes...

Author: By Peter K. Solmssen, | Title: In the Sky . . . On the Land . . . . . . and in Your Bed | 4/16/1949 | See Source »

...else. But since he ended up in England, where bicycle manufacture is a big industry, he decided to corner a small market on importation of now scarce parts. He explains the plethora of three-speed shifts and other hard to get gadgets by his easy distribution of Wrigley's spearmint gum to the stenographers of large British firms. "That put me way up on the list for post-war supply," he declared...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Rugged Individualist, Class of '34, Pedals Bicycle on Road to Success | 5/16/1946 | See Source »

...just an ordinary young housewife, mother of two young children, with a husband in the Army, and like many others had heard tales of dubious behavior by the American troops in this country. The few we had seen in a neighboring town seemed noisy, and either chewed Spearmint or oversize cigars, and rather resembled the film version of a "tough guy" in gangster films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 31, 1944 | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

...Office. No such help when he came here; he had gone through the standard technique, phoning Wellesley after carefully thumbing the Year Book. He had visited the Raymor and met a girl who explained fully why she preferred Cary Grant to Spencer Tracy. The sound of Wrigley's Spearmint masticated to conga rhythm had become the usual price of a stag weekend. All that suffering had been spared these Freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

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