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...When Coca-Cola's meek, mild Vice President and Secretary George T. Adams got a mysterious call from Washington, he examined his conscience, found it clean. Like many another U. S. businessman, he nonetheless half-expected a scolding. Instead he received a pat on the head. Said the Army Ordnance Department: "We want Coca-Cola to build and manage a bag loading plant...
...Coca-Cola first thought the jump from bottling to bagging incongruous, suggested it could work better with drugs, foods or chemicals. But the Army stood pat. It had made a study of management, found Coca-Cola on its first preferred master list, must put Coca-Cola to work at once. Coca-Cola saw the moral-no industry is exempt from defense-and concurred...
Bulging Rio's hotels, together with hundreds of Argentines, thousands of upcountry Brazilians, are about 700 Norteamericanos (including Coca-Cola's James Aloysius Farley), more than carnaval has ever drawn before. For this Rio can thank Nelson Rockefeller in his mouth-filling capacity of Coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Relations Between the American Republics. Coordinator Rockefeller has worked hard to sell the South and Central American carnivals to the U. S. (see cut), hopes for several times 700 U. S. visitors next year...
Quail trials are old stuff to Albany. But last week's event was something new-different from any field trial ever held in the U. S. Brainchild of a native named Richard Tift and backed by rich sportsmen including Coca-Cola Chairman Robert W. Woodruff, Manhattan Banker William C. Potter (Guaranty Trust), Walter C. Teagle (Standard Oil), this trial was an invitation affair, to determine the nation's best quail dog. To compete for this new crown came 16 "masters," chosen on performance at 53 recognized trials during the past two years...
Into a Rotary luncheon in Atlanta bounced Businessman James Aloysius Farley, chairman of Coca-Cola Export, piped: "I'm no longer selling stamps or looking for votes...