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Birthdays. Paul von Hindenburg, 84; William Wrigley Jr., 70; Oscar (Waldorf; Tschirky, 65; Mahatma Gandhi, 62; Charles (''Gabby") Street, 49; Hugh Herndon...
When cotton was selling for 10, per Ib. early in April. William Wrigley Jr., Chicago gum tycoon, thought it looked like a good investment. He announced he would buy 200,000 bales with the proceeds of his gum sales in the South (TIME, April 13). Last week cotton hovered just above 6? per Ib., which meant that Gum Man Wrigley had so far sustained a 40% paper loss. But 6? cotton looked like a good investment to another Chicagoan. Edward Aloysius Cudahy Jr., president of Cudahy Packing Co. More cautious than Gum Man Wrigley, Meat Packer Cudahy announced that...
...earlier than last year. Ginning the South Carolina crop started at Allendale seven days ahead of time. In Washington, Department of Agriculture officials hotly defended as "reasonably accurate" their 15,584,000 bale crop estimate.* Prices sank to the lowest level since 1899. If they went any lower William Wrigley Jr., who has taken a heavy loss on his bargain to buy cotton with the proceeds of his gum sales in the South (TIME, April 13), threatened to use cotton instead of excelsior to pack his product...
First floral offering to be delivered to Col. Knox was a large basket of chrysanthemums-about $25 worth. Who could have sent it? His good friends Senator George Higgins Moses or Col. Hanford MacNider? Publisher McCormick of the Tribune? William Wrigley, Jr.? Adman Albert Davis Lasker? Or even "W. R." (Hearst) himself? The Colonel grubbed eagerly through the bouquet for a card, found none. Then he became aware of a sly smile on the face of a rotund, grey-haired man standing near. Boomed the Colonel: "You old sonofagun! I knew it was you!" and the other man waddled...
...Frosted Foods etc.) showed $10,167,000 against $10,629,000. Beech-Nut Packing (bacon, chewing gum, also a hotel in Rochester, N. Y.) reported $1,172,000 against $1,320,000. Hershey Chocolate's $4,718,000 stood against $4,253,000. During the June quarter William Wrigley Jr. Co. showed a sensational gain from $2,365,000 to $3,057,000. International Salt's first six months' $399,000 compared with last year...