Word: coked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cheaper U.S. imports; the difference causes a pricing disadvantage of up to $5 a ton in competition with incoming Dutch and Italian steel. Steel imports, as one result, have climbed from 15% of German sales to 25% in the past five years. French steelmakers must import 25% of their coke, pay a 15% to 20% duty...
Vsychko Vyrvi Po Dobre S Coke means "Things go Better with Coke." That will be the latest addition to the national variations of its slogan that Coca-Cola uses in the 130 countries where it operates. What is so unusual about the new phrase is that it is in Bulgarian. Coca-Cola is about to enter Eastern Europe, where for years it was considered the very symbol of decadent capitalism. Under an agreement between Bulgaria's Communist government and Atlanta-based Coca-Cola, work has just started on a bottling plant in the Black Sea city of Varna that...
Bulgarians are already hearty soft drinkers, satisfying their thirst mainly with boza, a rye-based soft drink similar to Russian kvas, or with a Coke imitation known as Bulgar Cola. The government is not anxious to change habits. Like Yugoslavia, Rumania and Czechoslovakia, the Bulgarians have imported Coca-Cola from West Germany to please Western tourists. With a record 1,000,000 visitors expected next summer, Bulgaria is merely taking the sensible step of providing a local Coke supply and cutting import costs...
...armchairs were ripped apart, pottery was smashed, a desk was overturned, and pieces of coke bottles were strewn on the floor...
...volume of industrial production increased 84% instead of 80% as planned. The average annual rate of industrial growth was 9.1%, more than double that of the U.S. The Soviet Union holds first place in the world for production of granulated sugar, butter, woolen fabrics, metal-cutting machines, iron ore, coke, cement, reinforced concrete and timber. Obviously, the present changes were not caused by the painful sputter of the Soviet economic engine. Nor have the Communists seen advantages in capitalist methods. The reform means the transition to policy that conforms to the Soviet Union's present possibilities. By abolishing...