When Thomas Adams introduced Chicle to the American public, it knocked Curtis out of business.
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Within a decade, other American-companies were tapping
trees in Mexico to sell their own version of Chicle gum.
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Hundreds of years later, the Aztecs(who were at their height from about 1200 to 1521) were also enjoying Chicle.
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Santa Anna had a scheme to sell Mexican Chicle to Americans, who he thought could use it as an additive
to natural rubber to reduce its cost.
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Distinguishing the product a bit,
Wrigley recommended that Zeno use Chicle to make the gum instead of the paraffin and spruce that were the traditional ingredients of the day.
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Santa Anna never did profit from Chicle sales or raise an army as he would hoped,
but he was allowed to return to Mexico shortly before his death in 1876.