Word: coke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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France's Communist press bristled with warnings against U.S. "Coca-Colonization." Coke salesmen were described as agents of the OSS and the U.S. State Department. "Tremble," roared Vienna's Communist Der Abend, "Coca-Cola is on the march...
Last week, reinforced by their new allies, the Communists tried again. This time their bill did not mention Coca-Cola by name. It gave the Health Minister power to forbid the sale of beverages containing "certain vegetal products," i.e., those in Coke. The bill, with both Communist and M.R.P. support, passed...
Lafayette & a Belch. In New York, James Aloysius Farley, generalissimo of Coca-Cola's overseas expeditionary forces, sizzled like a shaken Coke bottle on a hot stove. "Coca-Cola wasn't injurious to the health of the American soldiers who liberated France from the Nazi," he exploded. "[It] followed their guns on the beachheads . . . I'm afraid General Lafayette would think this decision was small reward . . . This might be the straw to break the back of the camel hauling billions of American dollars to France...
...Coca-Cola is barred from France, U.S. Congressmen might be tempted to raise tariffs on French wines. One Congressman expressed his views on the matter. "Coca-Cola," said Representative Prince H. Preston Jr., from Coke's home state of Georgia, "would give the French something they have needed since the war ended, and that is a good belch...
...mass exodus to Memorial Hall will take place at about 10:30 p.m., where beer by the keg and coke by the case will be served along with other refreshments. As part of the stag activities, the Smoker Committee is holding a beer chug-a-lug contest with one entry from each hall...