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Tide, marketing tradesheet. investigated the drugstore buying habits of Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, reported: "Mr. Farley buys Squibb toothpaste. He also buys Squibb Shaving Cream. He's a heavy user of Listerine and pretty regular on Wrigley's (Spearmint). He never buys patent medicines...
Exhibitors last week ranged from big companies like Cannon Mills (towels), Owens-Illinois (glassware) and New Haven Clock to little fellows like Protection Products, Toy Tinkers, O-Pan-Top Manufacturing and Thunderbird Aircraft. Buyers were Armour, Swift, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, Procter & Gamble, Wrigley, General Foods, etc., etc. Biggest dispenser of premiums, with an annual appropriation of some $2,000,000. is supposed to be Quaker Oats Co. For four Quaker Oats box tops or one top and a dime, the company has lately distributed no less than 350,000 model airplanes made by Scrambled Eggs, Inc. A newcomer...
...Roosevelt has plenty of endorsement. What he lacks is money ($150,000 for prizes) which he has sought in vain from such tycoons as Edsel Ford and Philip Knight ("P. K.") Wrigley. Proposed route: Washington to Miami and the Canal Zone, down the West Coast of South America to Santiago (Chile), across the Andes to Buenos Aires, up the East Coast to Panama and Mexico City, thence to San Francisco and across...
From a refrigerated crypt in Pasadena, Calif., undertakers removed the frozen body of William Wrigley Jr., found it unchanged in appearance since they put it there three years ago. An ambulance sped it to the S. S. Catalina which bore it out to Santa Catalina Island. Near the town of Avalon an obelisk-topped mausoleum has been two years building. There William Wrigley Jr. was finally buried...
Elliott Roosevelt, second son of the President, did his bit as an executive of the National Aeronautic Association by trying to get General Hugh S. Johnson to direct, Edsel Ford and Philip K. Wrigley to back a North-&-South-American Air Derby modeled on the Mildenhall-to-Melbourne race...