Word: coke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Movie Houses. The old management had frowned on selling Pepsi in vending machines; under Steele, 42,000 were add ed in 1951 alone. As a vice president at Coca-Cola, Steele had pushed Coke in movie houses. Now, he persuaded some of his old friends such as National Theaters Corp.'s Charles P. Skouras to put in Pepsi instead. Abroad, Steele moved into five new countries, bringing Pepsi's foreign markets to 44, and got some important people to push his product. (The Cairo bottler, for example, has close Farouk connections.) Pepsi-Cola's sales are still...
...settin' in a drive-in having a Coke, When in drove a roadster with a half-inch stroke; The body was channeled...
...After four months of loafing around the campus Coke machines, a U.S. Secret Service agent pounced on three University of Wyoming students and hustled them off to jail. Their crime: shrinking pennies to dime-size in a one-minute bath of nitric acid. The law conceded that only about $20 worth of Cokes had been stolen in all, and that as many as 20 other students had done the same thing, but it still charged the three pranksters with mutilating U.S. currency. Bail was set at $1,000 apiece. Maximum penalty: a $2,000 fine and five years in jail...
...France, the University of Poitiers, in La Rochelle, and the Institute de Touraine in Tours are ecellent in their presentation of the language, literature, and civilization of France. Other Universities are good, with the exception of those in Paris and Strasbourg, which are bogged down with coke, hamburgers, and white shoes...
There is always space for Harvard news in the nation's papers. Not just any Harvard news, though; only things like gold fish swallowing, face slapping, and coke-bottle piling rate publicity. And angry editorials, indignant letters, or both usually follow in the news items wake...