Word: coked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Free beer, and occasional coke, and opportunities to enroll in the College's only school for journalism will be dispensed in lavish quantities at 7:30 p.m. tonight when all four boards of the CRIMSON open their winter competitions at 34 Plympton Street...
American influences, borne by the G.I.'s, have permeated the whole of Italy. The Rome police force travels about in a fleet of jeeps; chewing gum is in fashion; there is a coke stand on the roof of the cathedral in Milan. Coke even has a local competitor, a watery ersatz called "Presidento Cola," which comes in conical bottles...
Just about the only sharp disappointment the Communists suffered was in sales of a soft drink called Unita, brewed to replace Coca-Cola, which the Reds have denounced as capitalist poison (TIME, Aug. 22). Unità, which looks like Coke but has a strong flavor of quinine and tamarind, was a flop. Since Communist palates still thirsted for real Coke, the party decided to play it safe. "Comrades," announced a poster, "Coca-Cola was not invented by the Americans, but by the Russians...
...Henry Clay Frick came to T. Mellon & Sons for a loan one day. Thomas' son Andrew eyed him up & down. That day began an association which was to last for 42 years. Nothing and no one was too big for H. C. Frick. He armed his agents with coke forks, kitchen knives and flintlocks and subdued his rebellious labor. He turned on the great Andrew Carnegie himself and fought a battle for power which ended in the mergers that became U.S. Steel Corp...
Plentiful supplies of beer and Coke will be on hand for all comers. Those who turn out will be introduced to The CRIMSON'S organization and held about the eight to ton week grind that leads to becoming a CRIMSON EDITOR...