ALUMINUM: Wrigley’s Wrappers

Well aware was Philip K. Wrigley that priorities would allow him no more aluminum for foil to wrap his chewing gum. So last week smart Phil Wrigley sold his remaining 500,000 lb. to OPM, thus simultaneously 1) struck a blow for national defense, 2) pulled his neatest publicity coup since he bought famed Pitcher Dizzy Dean for his Chicago Cubs.