| 21. | Adams, a photographer and inventor, intended to vulcanize the chicle for use as a rubber substitute.
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| 22. | American Chicle utilized Dancer Fitzgerald Sample in 1950 to promote its products via radio, newspapers, and television.
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| 23. | Samuel Ribera, our crew boss, a flat-faced former chicle harvester, knew the trees like cousins.
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| 24. | American Chicle was purchased by the Warner-Lambert Company in 1962, which became part of Pfizer in 2000.
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| 25. | Disappointed with the rubber experiments, Adams boiled a small batch of chicle in his kitchen to create a chewing gum.
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| 26. | In 1899 he repeated the same with Adams Chewing Gum, Chiclets, Dentyne, and Beemans to form American Chicle.
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| 27. | In modern chewing gum, if natural rubber such as chicle is used, it must pass several purity and cleanliness tests.
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| 28. | In 1871, Adams received a patent on a gum-making machine and began mass-producing chicle-based gum.
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| 29. | When that didn't work he made the chicle into a chewing gum called Chiclets, which is still produced today.
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| 30. | Since it was the sole buyer of Guatemalan chicle, the government was forced to create a massive aid program for growers.
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