Word: coke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...growled. "They think all they have to do is out there in the pits." Old Soldier Berry still insists on the traditional Friday night "G.I. Party" if the battery's comfortable barracks looks unscrubbed. Suspiciously, he watches such innovations as midmorning (9:30-10) coffee breaks, midafternoon Coke breaks, mechanical potato peelers, dishwashers. EDUCATION IN THE RANKS...
...Coke & Beer. On central New Providence Island, nine new hotels have sprung up in the past five years. The Howard Johnson-run Nassau Beach Lodge opened in February; rushing to completion is Lyford Cay, a combination club-real estate development masterminded by international beer baron and financier Edward Plunket Taylor of Toronto. In 1955 Taylor paid $2,000,000 for 4,000 acres of underbrush 17 miles west of Nassau, making him the second biggest landowner on New Providence (after Eunice Lady Oakes and her children, heirs to the 7,000 acres of the late Sir Harry Oakes...
...March. Equally cheering, Blough told stockholders that the company earned $90,728,989 or $1.57 a share in the fourth quarter, topping the $90,096,731 or $1.56 a share it netted a year earlier. Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. relit a Chicago blast furnace and two East Chicago coke batteries it shut down in October...
...developed that we had come at a bad moment. The Coke company had just warned the strikers to "keep moving" and had sent for a policeman to keep the picketers off the grass around the building. In retaliation, the union had countered by refusing to allow employees to go home in yellow Coke trucks. "It's this kind of thing that causes violence," the local president warned...
...strike, which rose over a wage dispute--the Coke men were being paid less than the Pepsi and 7-Up drivers--is far from settlement, according to the president...