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...Coors accounts for 41% of all the beer sold in California, the nation's biggest beer-drinking state, and more than two-thirds of all beer drunk in Oklahoma. Altogether, the company produced eleven million 31-gal. barrels last year, making Coors the nation's fourth largest brewer (after Anheuser-Busch, Jos. Schlitz and Pabst), with sales of $440 million, up from ninth place a decade...
...construction crew. The firm meets its energy requirements by picking combustible material out of its waste products and burning it, and by tapping its own natural gas fields. Coors manufactured all of the 2.46 billion beer cans that it used last year, and in 1970 became the first brewer to buy back used cans from consumers (at 10? per lb.) for recycling. When Bill Coors designed a two-piece aluminum beer can, the company sold the patent to major packaging firms rather than go big in the can-making business. Reason: that would have meant borrowing money...
...escapades he has never hurt anyone. "In some of his periods of frustration, he may have been slightly threatening," says Lou V. Brewer, warden of the state penitentiary at Fort Madison, where Bobbie is presently incarcerated. "But he's never followed through on any threat. He's just a big old affable...
...also remind people that he is articulating what many other prisoners feel but cannot express. They are terrified of the outside world and its demands, and they commit crimes-sometimes violent ones-to be returned to the security of prison. "Bobbie's case is extreme," says Warden Brewer, "but you'll find his story in every prison in the country...
...past two years, it has lost $3.7 million while annual sales have remained flat at about $140 million. Recently, Heublein, Inc., which acquired Hamm for $63 million in 1965, unloaded the company for a mere $6,000,000 to a group -i- of Midwest beer distributors called Brewer's Unlimited, Inc. The new owners called on Satchell to reorganize the company. He will say only that Hamm will be "less ambitious in terms of the market it serves." About his own role, he is more emphatic. "I told them I wanted to do things my way, and they offered...