SAIC - Common Sense Gum Factory (Newport, Rhode Island)

Currently SAIC - Founded by J. Robert Beyster, Ph.D., and a small group of scientists in 1969, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a FORTUNE 500® company, and its subsidiaries now have approximately 41,000 employees worldwide. www.saic.com/

Built in 1912 as the Common Sense Gum Factory, This factory was built new and opened in January of 1912 with 60 girls employed. The product was “Listerated Gum”, for sale in the NYC subway system. (NDN Gum Factory to be Open for Business and Public Inspection, 1/12/12). There were, at the most, up to 240 Girls working there. Interestingly, this gum was chosen as the gum for soldiers overseas in WWI.

'Industry in the Southern Thames Street Neighborhood of Newport, Rhode Island, 1820 -1920'
Daniel P. Titus, Salve Regina University
escholar.salve.edu/fac_staff_pub/31/