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  • In Chicago, the Ricketts family is hardly as well known as the Wrigleys, or any of the current owners of the city's major professional sports franchises, but certainly that would change quickly for the new custodians of one of the country's best-known teams, as well as one of its most storied stadiums.

    Omaha World-Herald > Frontpage 2009

  • In Chicago, the Ricketts family is hardly as well known as the Wrigleys, or any of the current owners of the city's major professional sports franchises, but certainly that would change quickly for the new custodians of one of the country's best-known teams, as well as one of its most storied stadiums.

    Omaha World-Herald > Frontpage 2009

  • His Piccadilly painting features ads for Coca Cola, Bovril, Max Factor, Gordon's Gin and Wrigleys on the famous hoardings overlooking the junction.

    LS Lowry painting set to fetch £6m at auction 2011

  • Mr. Trott has advised Pritzkers, Wrigleys and Johnsons of S.C. Johnson fame in merger deals ranging from the $23 billion Mars-Wrigley tie-up to the Pritzker's $4.5 billion sale of Marmon Holdings to Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

    The Midwest Medicis' Favorite Financier Dennis K. Berman 2011

  • He had substituted gum chewing for his cigarette habit, so he took a Wrigleys out of his pocket and popped it into his mouth.

    Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

  • He had substituted gum chewing for his cigarette habit, so he took a Wrigleys out of his pocket and popped it into his mouth.

    Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

  • But when he wasn't writing about the Cubs (whom he thought were cursed by their racially backward ownership under the Wrigleys, not by a goat), or answering hostile reader mail with laugh-out-loud retorts, Royko was the bard of the boodlers.

    We Need Royko 2008

  • If successful, a deal for Wrigley would bring together two companies controlled by intensely private dynasties: the Mars of northern Virginia and Wrigleys of Chicago.

    Mars, Buffett Team Up in Wrigley Bid 2008

  • He had substituted gum chewing for his cigarette habit, so he took a Wrigleys out of his pocket and popped it into his mouth.

    Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

  • Some of the vendors sold beverages, while the others tossed free boxes of Cracker Jacks and packets of Wrigleys gum to the cranksjust like they had advertised.

    Great Balls of Fire Loren Long 2008

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