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...White Motor Co. is located at Cleveland, its products sell from $1,545 to $8,000. The headquarters of the Coca-Cola Co. are in Atlanta, Ga., its products sell from 5? to 10?. Yet these two $50,000,000 companies have long had something in common and last week that bond was strengthened...
President of White Motor Co. and a director of Coca-Cola was, until his death last fortnight (TIME, Oct. 7), Walter C. White. President of Coca-Cola Co. was his great & good friend, Robert W. Woodruff, also a director of White. Last week Mr. Woodruff was elected president of White, told pleased directors he would manage both companies simultaneously, adding "I'll live in a Pullman car, I guess. I've lived almost entirely in one for the last several years anyway." Although Mr. Woodruff, 40, was 13 years younger than Walter White, the two men were famed...
...fire extinguisher company, a purchasing agent for a coal and ice concern. Once with White, Salesman Woodruff's route became less devious, more rapid. After being made assistant to President White, he became general manager and vice president, relinquishing the managership when in 1923 he became president of Coca-Cola...
Elected. Robert Winship Woodruff, president of Coca-Cola Co.; to the presidency of White Motor Co., left vacant by the death of his friend, Walter C. Vhite (TIME...
Died. Walter C. White, 53, Coca-Cola director, longtime motor maker, who last year sold some $47,000,000 worth of White trucks and buses; of an internal hemorrhage, after an automobile accident; at Cleveland. Driving to work in a Stutz, he carromed into another car, hurtled into a vacant lot, fractured his right hip and leg. Out of the relics of his father's White Sewing Machine Co. grew White Motor Co., first manufacturing steam cars. Since 1921 he had been the company's president. During the War he was one of a committee to supervise...