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...When dentistry was over for the day (often around midnight), overflow guests of the crowded hotel often slept on beds made up in the anteroom. Dr. Kennedy's prices were fairly high-$20 for an inlay-but not high as Alaska prices went: coal was $40 a ton, Coca-Cola 25? a bottle (when it could be had), watermelons $6 each...
Briton: But what does Coca-Cola taste like? Cocoa...
...with 60 A.W.V.S. girls to aid service men in the selection of Christmas gifts. While shopping the men get free cookies, cigarets, out-of-town newspapers, magazines, lounging space, game tables and buying advice. For 5? a portion they can get (from a 30-ft. bar) coffee, apple pie, Coca-Cola, milk and Scotch broth, served by singing waitresses. Filene's in Boston introduced self-service in its gift-wrapping department, invited buyers to take a tray, register for payment, do their gift wrapping themselves at a 40-ft. counter...
...most unpleasant feature of war is waiting. U.S. soldiers, sailors and marines defending Pacific outposts get along all right without much fresh food. They can stand the heat, the glare of the sun, the scarcity of beer and Coca-Cola. Unlike fighting men on islands in the western Pacific, they never see a woman-of any color. But what really annoys them is the itch for something, anything to happen. "I wouldn't mind sitting here under this gun, looking up at the sky day after day, if something would just come along sometimes," said an anti-aircraftsman after...
Together with radical changes in the traditionally indifferent attitude of students must come a shakeup in the methods of organization and soliciting. Special ventures such as charging five ten-cent war stamps per head at House dances, or urging Coca-Cola to contribute ten cases of their product, and selling the bottles at ten cents in stamps at the fall balls, should become a frequent occurrence. The forth-coming door-to-door pledge drive must be complete and efficient, covering every room. If the present system of collection at House dining halls has proven itself the most effective, the salesmen...