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Title: Financial giants of America
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Redmond, George F
Subjects: Capitalists and financiers
Publisher: Boston, Mass., The Stratford company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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overturn of theWrigley Co. runs up to $30,000,000 a year, or about threetimes that of the older American Chicle Co. William Wrigley, Junior, has stuck to his last. He hasstuck to two things — advertising and gum. His first quartermillion dollar advertising campaign was a dud. Since thenhe has similarly invested $20,000,000 and his factories inChicago, Toronto, Brooklyn and Sydney, Australia, turn out10,000,000,000 sticks of gum a year, enough laid end to endto reach from New York to Galveston and bridge the Gulf ofMexico. The Wrigley Tower is Chicagos latest architectural won-der and Wrigley stock is one of the Chicago bourses favoriteissues. He has in the Wrigley Building in Chicago an edificewhich cost $4,000,000. This building with its 400-foot tower,was erected in five months and a day of working time, fromthe first sub-basement column to the completed tower andwith 50% of the inside plastering finished. It is a worthy land-mark of the great enterprise and its master-mind. (242)
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SAMUEL INSULL Samuel Insull did not wait for Opportunity toknock at his door. He prepared himself to find itand to take advantage of it. So thorough was hispreparation that he is now head of Edison Worksin Chicago and the chief of the Edison organizationknown as **Pioneers—and his boyhood ambitionwas to work for Edison. He believes that the man who accomplishesthings is the man who is aivake to his opportunities,and not necessarily the near genius, who has somespecial talent. Insull has ivorked, he has alwayslooked ahead of his present position, and no execu-tive is more deserving of his prestige and powerthan he. SAMUEL INSULL SAMUEL INSULL, the head of the Edison Works in Chi-cago and chief of the Edison organization known as Pioneers, was born November 11, 1859, in London,England. He began life as an office boy at $1.25 a week, asum which he had to supplement with earnings from otherduties in the evenings. He mastered shorthand while still aboy and worked nights at the home of Th

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