Word: wrigley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something 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...
...youth, Fred Weiszmann had played football (soccer) in his native Hungary, where, as in most foreign countries, it rated tops in popularity. Six months ago he decided to make Americans soccer-conscious. He raked together $75,000,* organized the Chicago Maroons, wangled playing rights in big-time Wrigley Field, formed a streamlined league which would travel by air. In Chicago last week U.S. soccer moguls promptly approved an April opening for his loop. If U.S. soccer needed a live-wire promoter, he had arrived...
...dapper Sportsman Fred Weiszmann intended to play it safe. Until he learned whether the hitherto apathetic U.S. public would take to soccer, he would stay on as assistant headwaiter at Chicago's popular Wrigley Building restaurant...
...customers who jampacked Detroit's Briggs Stadium and Chicago's Wrigley Field (at a $7.20 top), it was a strictly second-rate show. But the people kept coming, and the total take reached an alltime high of $1,328,777. The players' pool promised a juicy cut for both winners & losers...
take it from me kiddo believe me my country, 'tis of you, land of the Cluett Shirt Boston Garter and Spearming Girl With the Wrigley Eyes (of you land of the Arrow Ide and Earl & Wilson Collars) of you i sing; land of Abraham Lincoln and Lydia E. Pinkham, land above all of Just Add Hot Water And Serve- from every B.V.D. let freedom ring...