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...union representative will meet this morning with a spokesman from the Boston Coca-Cola Bottling Company and a federal mediary to try to settle the union's demand for higher wages and better working conditions...
Anyone with an irresistible craving for Coca-Cola had best amass a large supply quickly. If a meeting today does not succeed in ending the two week old local coke producers' strike, the beverage will soon be unavailable in the Boston area...
...20th. He grabbed choice lands and houses that struck his fancy, and jailed those owners who complained. He handled all the state funds, but never kept accounts or made a budget. The country had no daily newspaper, no long-distance phone, no credit system-not even a Coca-Cola plant. As nearly as anyone can estimate, Ahmad's annual income was about $16 million, his expenditures about $21 million. He raised money by adding charges to customs duties and levying internal tariffs on trucks and caravans. In times past, fertile Yemen, known as Arabia Felix, was the granary...
...agency. Gifted with uncommon ability at convincing argument and a metabolism that enables him to step into a conference with a client daisy-fresh after 24 solid hours of work, Harper became president of McCann at 32. Since then he has personally won for his agency such accounts as Coca-Cola and Buick and has increased its worldwide billings 600% to $371 million last year-second only to Thompson. An Oklahoman who went to Andover and Yale, Harper is an inveterate theorist who has become the most cussed and discussed man in advertising by expanding McCann into a maze...
...campaign for Embassy cigarettes brought him to the attention of Lorillard-where he spent three years before resigning "for reasons of health." When he was invited to take charge at D'Arcy in 1953, Ganger walked into a disaster: loss of the $10 million-a-year Coca-Cola account. But in a vigorous drive for new business, Ganger signed up Royal Crown Cola, has recently won Wildroot, Knox Gelatine and Plaid Stamps. With billings up to $87 million last year, Ganger beams: "We've nearly doubled our business in the past five years...