... in Chicago and the same year bought the Chicago Cubs baseball team. The stadium of the Cubs, Wrigley Field, also helped promote the company name. In 1981 the family sold the baseball team to Tribune Company. William Wrigley Jr. then died in 1932. When the United States entered World War II in 1941, supplies of quality ingredients for gum became limited, and the ... company had to cut down its production. In 1944, the company developed a low-quality gum for consumers called Orbit. The company kept its premium brands in consumer's minds with billboard advertisements that showed an empty W...

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... less than male journeymen tailors. This innovation led to the rise of the garment industry sweatshop. The ready-to-wear industry expanded during the Civil War to meet the demand for uniforms. Garment manufacturers increased production by building factories and networks of seamstresses also developing a more sufficient production methods and a ... better understanding of sizing as they prepared to meet demands at the end of the war. Much of the work began to be done in sweatshops which were factories who employed only women and children because most men were at the ... war. Although man...

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