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Chuck RFrank: World Wide Gum was run by the same people that ran Goudey (or to be more accurate, the stock was owned by the principals of Goudey). We discussed this within another thread a few months ago. I know this from the text of a conversation with George Thompson, the last president of Goudey, who had been with the company since the 1920's. WWG was incorporated in May 1933.
Sea Raiders come with all three versions for the 1st 24 cards (i.e. Boston - English text, Montreal - English text, Montreal - French and English text), but only the last two versions for cards 25-48 (which are hard as hell to find). In reality, the set designated R124 Sea Raiders by Burdick consists of cards 1-24 with the Boston back. The set with cards 1-48 with the Montreal back is actually a different set designated V359. For the 1933 baseball sets, Burdick designated the US version of 240 cards R319 and the Canadian version as a different set (V353).