Word: coca-cola
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Divorced. By Tyrus Raymond ("Ty") Cobb, 60, one of baseball's alltime greats, whose early dabbling in Coca-Cola stock brought him a small fortune: Charlie Marion Lombard Cobb, 57, mother of his five children; after almost 30 years: in Reno...
Along the way, Gunther gleaned many a curious fact. The annual per capita Coca-Cola consumption in New Orleans is 120 bottles; in New York City, six bottles. The names of the New England towns of Berlin, Calais, Paris and Peru are locally pronounced Berlin, Callus, Pay-rus, Pee-ru. Los Angeles ("Iowa with palms") is the world's second largest Mexican city...
...Seven districts in Hammersmith give Wallace a plurality of 54," with James A. Garfield and Aaron Burr trailing badly. Then the grand finale in Trafalgar Square, with Landseer's lions magically changed to eagles at the touch of Henry's wand, and all the fountains playing pure Coca-Cola. What a revenge...
...fast start in radio as NBC's sales manager; he laid the commercial foundations of the Blue Network (now ABC) almost singlehanded. When he came to Mutual, Coca-Cola transferred its $2,000,000 account, just to be with...
...watch a farmer and his son laboriously grading a small field with the help of a decrepit old mule. The sight was a common one in the South, and it was not new to Robert Marion Strickland, 50, president of Atlanta's Trust Co. of Georgia (main Coca-Cola bank). But he had just been visiting a well-heeled farmer friend who had cleared and graded a 30,000-acre farm in a short time with heavy machinery. Bob Strickland decided on the spot to bring the benefits of machinery to the 144,000 little fanners in Georgia...