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Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. The average american chewed 105 sticks of gum a year by the 1920s, creating a massive demand for chicle. It is the first book devoted entirely to chewing gum and all its infinite varieties, and one learns about chewing gum s mayan history, and its historic progression from syrup. The great american chewing gum book book, 1976 worldcat. Worse, the gum was nearly impossible to remove from the face or whatever surface the bubble burst upon. By the 1920s, american chicle, the william wrigley jr. The great american chewing gum book by robert hendrickson. The great american chewing gum book 9780801962547 by hendrickson, robert and a great selection of similar new, used and collectible books available now at great prices. In 1909 fleer sold his chicle chewing gum company to the sensen company, which, renamed as the sen sen chiclet company, was later merged into american chicle.
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According to the great american chewing gum book by robert hendrickson, if all the sticks of gum chewed in america each year were laid end to end, it would equal a stick of gum five million miles long. According to robert hendrickson in his 1976 tome the great american chewing gum book an excerpt of which was republished in the july 1990 edition of smithsonian, frank fleerwho founded his company with brother henry who invented chicletswanted to create a chewing gum that would be distinguishable from his many competitors products. Modern chewing gum is composed of gum base, sweeteners, softenersplasticizers, flavors, colors, and, typically, a hard or powdered polyol coating. And, in borneo after world war ii, enterprising headhunters abducted a foreign diplomat and held him for a ransom of fleers dubble bubble, according to the great american chewing gum book.
Grade 3 up not since robert hendricksons the great american chewing gum book chilton, 1976. Search for library items search for lists search for contacts search for a library. Diemer, who accidentally invented bubble gum while testing recipes in 1928, is dead at 93. The great american baseball card flipping, trading and bubble gum book by harris, fred c. Great american chewing gum book history robert hendrickson on amazon. Since world war ii, american soldiers have been issued gum with their k rations and survival kits. Discusses chewing gum, its forms and flavors, its history and technology, and its various uses. Chewing gum is the debut novel of libyan writer mansour bushnaf, first published in arabic 2008 in cairo. The book takes its title from chicle, a natural latex produced by the. There are a lot of histories online by the various chewing gum companies as well. The great american baseball card flipping, trading and bubble gum book from br bullpen written in 1973 by brendan c. Jacob warren bowman, an american chewing gum salesman, started his own company, gum, inc. Between chew and shoe, it has solved crimes and patched. The great american chewing gum book unknown binding 1976 by robert hendrickson author.
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