Word: wrigley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Wrigley...
Broad Jump Won by Wyndham L. Hasler, 22 feet, 3 7-8 in.; second, Johnson (MIT), 21 feet, 11 7-8 in.; third, Sandler (N), 21 feet, 9 8-4 in.; fourth. Wrigley (MIT), 21 feet, 4 3-4 in.; fifth. Brown (MIT), 20 feet...
...America has had its Automobile King, Henry Ford; its Oil King, John D. Rockefeller ... its Chewing Gum King, William Wrigley, Jr. ... its Coke King, Henry Clay Frick...
...successor, Philip Knight ("P. K.") Wrigley, did not inherit his father's flamboyant sense of salesmanship. Quiet and methodical, he likes to fiddle with machinery and motor boats, keep out of the limelight. But in the dark days of February 1933 he astounded conservative businessmen by upping Wrigley wages 25%. And he was the first to put the Blue Eagle on his gum packages. Last week Gummaker Wrigley again made news by announcing a $1,000,000 employes' "assurance" plan. "In talking with workers in our factories," said he, "I discovered that their chief worry...
Predicted Funnyman Will Rogers: ''Mr. Wrigley . . . did a thing today that will eventually become universal...