Word: coke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those sophomores, juniors and seniors who wish to make the most of it should appear at the CRIMSON Building, 14 Plympton Street, at 7:30 p.m. on October 5, when the fall competition opens for all boards. Beer and coke will be on the house...
...Rice & Coke. With cries of Mabuhay (long live) in his ears, earnest, honest Magsaysay climbed back into his car and drove on. It was pitch dark. At several villages, the candidate and his bodyguards plodded with flashlights through inky darkness in the rain to shake hands with people. At Guagua, Magsaysay dined on chicken and rice, washed down by Coca-Cola, and told a crowd that "by coming like this among the humble people of the country, I am revolutionizing political campaigning in the Philippines . . . My policy can be summed up in one word, 'action...
...Bigger Yields. Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) announced a new refining process called fluid coking, which gets 10% to 20% more gasoline and home-heating fuels from a barrel of crude. In Standard's process, the heavy crude residue is bombarded with a fluidlike stream of hot, finely divided coke particles, which causes it to vaporize, re-form as useful, light petroleum products...
...abuse the common people." The atmosphere of barter infected all Coihueco. Cabled TIME Correspondent Mario Planet: "I had to give 10 pesos to a little girl before she would tell me my way on a street. When I asked her another question, she demanded 10 more - just like a Coke machine." On election day, voters went straight from polling places to the payoff agents...
...time or another, some political scars. Cynics, noting Lyndon's narrow margin of victory, pointed to the odd voting procedure in Jim Wells County, in the bailiwick of notorious Political Boss George Parr. Originally, Jim Wells turned in a count of 1,786 for Johnson, 769 for Coke Stevenson. Then, six days later, the county reported a corrected count: Johnson 1,988, Stevenson 770. The correction put Johnson over. Stevenson charged fraud, but the polling list and ballots from Precinct 13 (where Stevenson said the fraud occurred) could not be found. They have not been found yet. Johnson...