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...Essential" Industry. What this policy did to Wrigley's present business - in the face of the stigma of making a "pleasure product" - turned out to be mostly good. For the first time gum became "essential." Wrigley's, which sells more than half of the chewing gum in the world, was able to keep operating profits up to $22,900,000 last year, 7% above 1942, and even to squeeze out a small increase in net income (to $6,800,000). Besides that, Phil Wrigley collected a fine file-drawer full of testimonials on what gum does to increase...
...safeguards against the property being put to immoral use." What is more, the Church is "forgoing some ?5,000 [$20,000] a year income" by such refusals. But Church officials will not sell or give away the land because that "would simply be ridding [the Church] of the direct stigma of responsibility without any assurance that the evil would cease...
...America, can you become citizens? No. Americans don't want you. They just want you to do their fighting. Their Exclusion Act names you and says you are unfit for American citizenship. If Generalissimo Chiang really has influence in America, why has he not had this stigma erased from American law? There will be no such discrimination against you in the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere...
...risk of being called a blankety-blank purist, I have changed the name of this column from "Swing" to "Jazz." As one of my many belated acts, I hope to removes the stigma of a name which has, of late, become thoroughly unfitting to the contents...
...risk of being called a blankety-blank purist, I have changed the name of this column from "Swing" to "Jazz." As one of my many belated acts, I hope to remove the stigma of a name which has, of late, become thoroughly unfitting to the contents...