It is almost certain that this mound had never been visited from the time of its erection till its discovery last year by chiclebleeders looking for sapodilla trees in this very remote corner of Yucatan.
The crude chicle has a delightful flavor, which is entirely destroyed by the gum-manufacturers, who mix in artificial flavors, with a liberal percentage of sugar.
If the gum-chewer could obtain crude chicle with its delicious native flavor he (or she) would never be content to chew the article as prepared for the trade.
While we were there he received a warning from the Indians that on the 16th of January they would attack and burn the chicle woods around Puerto Morelos.
From there they are transported by car, river and horse into the dense chicle forests in the mountain regions, then across the Guatemalan border into Chiapas and Campeche.
He offered them fifty thousand pesos to take the contraband off the boat and transport it through the chicle jungles to the destination he would give them.
During March, 1938, mysterious activities took place in the heart of the chicle forests in Campeche.
Since the valley of the Rio de Grande was only a short distance off, he had ridden to his chicle camp, there to meet temporary defeat in his attempt at looting the old colonel's concessions.
In Belize," he told himself, "before the chicle is brought aboard the steamer, I will claim my precious bag.
A few sacks of chicle had drifted away in the night, that was all.
In a chicle sack somewhere in the storeroom of your uncle's company.
That last shipment ofchicle you took on board belonged to my grandfather.
Was the chicle sack of the green thread still on the sailing boat of the night before, or had the marauders carried it away?
The bleeding season forchicle begins with the first rainfall.
I must not forget my grandfather, my photograph, and the chicle concession.
To get a look at the chicle stored there in the forward hold was not so simple a task as Pant had at first supposed it to be.
Without giving his grandfather any definite reason for his sudden departure, he had hired a twelve foot dugout from a native bushman and had set out in pursuit of the chicle sack that contained his treasure of pearls in a beaten silver box.
He, Diaz, might gather all the chicle he chose to in that valley.
I'll have to see some one high up in the Central Chicle office and get permission to make the search.
Nothing could exceed the astonishment of the chicle magnate when, having lifted the lid of the ancient silver box, his eyes fell upon the treasure of pearls within.
His "tourist" helicopter was a Guatemalan candidate for the Air & Space Museum, an old Bell UH-1D patched together with chicle and corn masa.
Sometimes this breaking and grinding is done in Mexico, but the duty on ground dried chicle is five cents per pound more than upon cube chicle.
The bulk of the crude chicle manufactured is shipped in blocks to Canada, where it is further evaporated and carefully refined prior to importation into the United States.
When the chicle arrives at one of the chewing-gum factories it is immediately turned over to the grinding department.
These chunks are then run through grinding machines, which reduce the chicle to a coarse meal.
After it is ground and dried it is practically free of moisture, but one of the most difficult problems which the manufacturer faces is to thoroughly dry chicle before he proceeds to treat it for its introduction as the base of chewing gum.
Chicle meal is dried upon frames in a special drying room, which is kept at a temperature of 80° F.
Though its employment in the manufacture of chewing gum is of comparatively recent date, chicle was used by the Indians prior to the days of Columbus as a means of quenching their thirst.
During the process of filtration the chicleis also sterilized, and comes from the machine as pure as distilled water.
It sounded as if our esteemed Chief was hired by thechicle company as a salesman or demonstrator of their products!
But the tests proved hopeless for false teeth, as the chicle was too conscientious to lend itself to any falsity, knowing well that it was meant for a far greater blessing than to hold porcelain molars in place.
But to offset these stupendous figures in this loss of jaw-power one must stop to think of the good chicle has brought to the American public.
With chicle at fifty cents a pound at the dock, that should yield a profit.
This," he had explained, "is one of my many chicle camps.
And this tiger is old, fairly gray bearded, the chicle buyer said.
If someone tries to break into the mahogany or chicle business, instead of helping them in a brotherly fashion as he could well afford to do, he tries to throttle them.
Within thirty days he must remove his wagons, his tractors, his chicle kettles, everything that belongs to him.
The camp in which Johnny had enjoyed his wild turkey dinner was a chicle camp.
Across the river, far up as you can go, we are rich in forests, mahogany that has scarcely been touched; sapodillas that will yield a million, two million pounds of chicle a year.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chicle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
