Word: coca-cola
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...group of strangers turned up in his yard. Their leader identified himself as a Quaker, a member of the Friends Service Committee. While neighbors peered, the Quakers cut the lawn, painted out the offending signs, swept the porch. Beaming, Shigeo Nagaishi rushed out with Coca-Cola and cookies, told his good neighbors he had decided to stay in Seattle...
...police blocked the doors, began to question every draft-age man who came out. There were boos. Suddenly someone tossed a Coca-Cola bottle at a Mountie and scored a clean...
They buy rum & Coca-Cola...
Lord Invader's ditty caught on with the U.S. troops, who bellowed it lustily in Trinidad's barracks and cafes. For more than a year Coca-Cola's local branch failed to notice the song's commercial potentialities; then they suddenly caught on and made furious attempts to obtain the rights to the song. But by then the Trinidad rights had been sewed up and the song imported to the U.S. by an up-&-coming radio funnyman named Morey Amsterdam...
...watered-down, scrubbed-up version, tailored to Tin Pan Alley standards, Rum & Coca-Cola was plugged at Manhattan's Paramount Theater by a blond singer named Jeri Sullavan. It quickly became the biggest selling calypso song in history. Last week the Pepsi-Cola Co. was reportedly urging Rum & Coca-Cola's Manhattan publishers and Decca's Jack Kapp to make recordings with "coca" changed to "pepsi...