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Word: cokemen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last week, as Cokemen surveyed their empire, on which the sun never sets, their blood almost audibly fizzed with pride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: The Sun Never Sets On Cacoola | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

...millions of parched throats throughout the rest of Africa and Asia make a vision almost too dazzling for Cokemen to bear. A new bottling plant, complete with badminton courts to attract youthful customers, is about to open in Bombay, India. Japan, where all production is still going to U.S.-occupation personnel, is eager for civilian Coke. Most indigenous palates which have sampled the G.I.s' drink have been pleased. Sighed one Tokyo waitress: "It has the sweet-and-bitter taste of first love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: The Sun Never Sets On Cacoola | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

Finally, the educational assembly line returns them to New York City, where the graduates get an expense account instead of a diploma and go to take their part in the world-which Cokemen have divided into areas, divisions and territories with the ease of a Georgia politico redistricting Chattahoochee County. The graduates' pupils, ready & waiting for instruction, are the foreign bottlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: The Sun Never Sets On Cacoola | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

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