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Even the lunch toters were in for trouble at the soft-drink counter. In New York City, bottled Coca-Cola broke loose from its famous nickel moorings for the first time and went on to 6?. Other cities might have it worse: half of the nation's 6,000 soft-drink bottlers had upped their wholesale case price. Beer also went...
Died. Samuel Candler Dobbs, 81, a director, onetime (1919-20) president and longtime (1892-1919) chief booster of the Coca-Cola Co.; in Lakemont, Ga. At 18, Dobbs came out of the Georgia backwoods, got a job as porter in the Atlanta drugstore of his uncle Asa Griggs Candler. When Candler bought the Coca-Cola formula from the druggist who invented it, young Dobbs became its first salesman, boomed it locally as "Delicious & Refreshing" instead of as a headache remedy, later began to make it a national habit by spending millions (over Candler's objections) on advertising...
While most Washington politicos were loudly talking of holding the line on prices, the Senate's Small Business Committee last week was looking in another direction. It found something too cheap. At 5? a bottle Coca-Cola was underpriced; it should, said the committee, be raised to 10? because small bottlers were being squeezed out of business. (Coca Cola Co. headquarters in Atlanta said it planned no price increase for the syrup it sells to bottlers, thus implied it was doing nothing to cause any retail increase...
James A. Farley, in Spain for his third visit since the war, had a 40-minute chat with Franco, failed to get official permission to enlarge his Barcelona Coca-Cola plant...
...entry's basement will also offer a continuous supply of milk and fruit juice to non Coca-Cola partisans. With all this, the Dunster House Committee is hoping to make a notable dent in the sales of Square snack shops. Only with an adequate House demand can they remain in business. And, for these saving a nightly half-hour,, prices will be "fair...