Word: coke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...union, and Phil went through his first strike when he was six. Four years later, he quit school and went into the mines to work at 80? a day. The Murrays came to the U.S. in 1902, and Phil and his father went to work for the Keystone Coal & Coke Co. in Pennsylvania's Westmoreland County. In 1904, Phil slugged a Keystone weighman who was shorting him at the scales, was fired and ordered out of the county. But before he left the Keystone, the miners started him on his career by electing him the president of their local...
...invading Lebanon, Pepsi was tramping heavily on the seven-league boots of its No. 1 rival, Coca-Cola. Coke, first in the Middle Eastern market in 1945 with a plant in Cairo, cashed in because Moslems like sweet drinks, have religious restrictions against alcoholic beverages. Coke was a big seller from Cairo to Iraq when Pepsi opened a plant in Cairo, began selling all through the Middle East and Africa. Pepsi's sales were boosted by its bigger bottle and sweeter-than-Coke taste while bright young sales specialists were shipped to the area by Pepsi President Alfred...
Last week Pepsi was set to take another big gulp out of Coke's Mideastern market. With plants under construction in Basra and Khartoum, Pepsi has issued franchises for other plants, costing about $400,000 each, in Bahrein and Amman...
Pepsi is giving Coke plenty of competition in other foreign countries, now has some 190 franchises for bottling plants ranging from Iceland to Manila. Pepsi's agreement with bottlers is similar to Coca-Cola's: the bottler owns the plant, buys the concentrate from Pepsi...
...raid-originally a noisy but generally good-natured affair-seemed to get rougher and more destructive. At the University of Washington the raiding mob broke windows at a sorority house to get in. When University of Missouri students raided nearby Stephens and Christian Colleges, the girls fought back with Coke bottles, mops and plumber's helpers. The male rioters broke windows, doors and screens, damaged furniture, threw eggs and potatoes and stole silverware, cigarette lighters and lamp shades...