Word: wrigley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt has plenty of endorsement. What he lacks is money ($150,000 for prizes) which he has sought in vain from such tycoons as Edsel Ford and Philip Knight ("P. K.") Wrigley. Proposed route: Washington to Miami and the Canal Zone, down the West Coast of South America to Santiago (Chile), across the Andes to Buenos Aires, up the East Coast to Panama and Mexico City, thence to San Francisco and across...
From a refrigerated crypt in Pasadena, Calif., undertakers removed the frozen body of William Wrigley Jr., found it unchanged in appearance since they put it there three years ago. An ambulance sped it to the S. S. Catalina which bore it out to Santa Catalina Island. Near the town of Avalon an obelisk-topped mausoleum has been two years building. There William Wrigley Jr. was finally buried...
Elliott Roosevelt, second son of the President, did his bit as an executive of the National Aeronautic Association by trying to get General Hugh S. Johnson to direct, Edsel Ford and Philip K. Wrigley to back a North-&-South-American Air Derby modeled on the Mildenhall-to-Melbourne race...
...William M. Walker resigned as president of the Chicago Cubs. Owner Philip K. Wrigley, who a year ago saw his team in action only five times, took over the job, promised new features for next year...
...little corporations selling biscuits, brake shoes, dynamos, table salt, telephones, bottle glass, gum and gas machines reported their profits and losses for the first half of 1934. A majority had done better in the second quarter than in the first. Of 19 big corporations only four, A. T. & T., Wrigley. National Biscuit, Corn Products, earned less than they had in the first six months of 1933. Five others jumped into the black, against losses last year: four already in the black doubled or nearly doubled their earnings; the rest showed moderate improvement&151:all reflecting the mixed conditions of general...