Word: wrigleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before William Wrigley Jr. died in his sleep on the morning of Jan. 26, 1932, his long grey-brown mountain in the sea off Southern California (purchase price $3,000,000, improvements $20,000,000) had become a profitable combination of poor man's Nassau and rich man's Coney Island. Last week, when the U.S. Maritime Service opened its second largest training station for merchant seamen on Catalina's crescent-shored Avalon bay, only the shape of the island remained as William Wrigley left...
...tourists once stared back at opal-eyed bass, were tied up at the docks. The $2,000,000, twelve-story casino, on whose Moorish-Spanish exterior thousands of weekenders penciled their names, was a part time classroom; the expensive St. Catherine Hotel was a training headquarters and barracks; the Wrigley-built Hotel Atwater was a school and dormitory for marine stewards, cooks and bakers...
...When Little Rock sold him to the Cubs, the ebullient Newsom started to drive to Chicago to congratulate Owner Phil Wrigley on getting such a superb pitcher. The car, driven at the routine Newsom rate of 90-odd miles per hour, jumped the icy road. Just before spring training, Newsom went to a mule sale, and a mule kicked his freshly healed leg into smithereens again...
...Dean's Office. No such help when he came here; he had gone through the standard technique, phoning Wellesley after carefully thumbing the Year Book. He had visited the Raymor and met a girl who explained fully why she preferred Cary Grant to Spencer Tracy. The sound of Wrigley's Spearmint masticated to conga rhythm had become the usual price of a stag weekend. All that suffering had been spared these Freshmen...
...situation came last week when a New York brokerage firm circulated a market letter advising that now is the time to buy the stocks of firms depressed by the sugar shortage. The letter listed as safely stocked: American Chicle, Canada Dry, Coca Cola, Nehi Corporation, Pepsi Cola, and William Wrigley. Of course the patriotic press can scarcely afford to offend these heavy advertisers. Many of them also have close connections with Washington. Coca Cola, for example, can give a tremendous tug to the purse-strings of many southern representatives. Besides using sugar in its extract formula, the concoctors of this...