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"Essential" Industry. What this policy did to Wrigley's present business - in the face of the stigma of making a "pleasure product" - turned out to be mostly good. For the first time gum became "essential." Wrigley's, which sells more than half of the chewing gum in the...
Petroleum Administrator Harold L. Ickes, who mortally fears a U.S. oil shortage, wanted a boost in crude oil prices in order to spur production. Economic Stabilizer Fred M. Vinson, fearful that this might squeeze about $500,000,000 more from the U.S. consumer, flatly refused. Still Mr. Vinson agreed that...
The glittery sets of Newport, Hollywood, Park Avenue, and Broadway were all well represented. Sugar Heiress Geraldine Spreckels moved from Miami to Palm Beach on her way to Beverly Hills. At Palm Beach were James H. R. ("Jimmie") Cromwell, busy Extramen Randolph ("Randy") Burke and Alastair Mackintosh. Lily Pons, Jeanette...
U.S. industry tumbled out a flood of year-end reports last week. From smeary ticker-tape bulletins to four-colored brochures, the news was golden. Despite the squeeze of taxes and rising costs, overall profits for U.S. industry in 1943 were slightly better even than richly profitable 1942.
> Swiss sources learned that Nazi authorities have ordered all industry and business through the wringer again to squeeze out another 900,000 fighting men. Reason: last year's "total mobilization," aimed to procure 2,000,000 more soldiers, produced barely 500,000.