Word: cola
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coca-Cola...
Among the self drinks Coca-Cola appears to be the most severely affected with sales reported dropping 40 to 60 per cent, Ice cream sodas were slightly affected, out milk and coffee search suffered any change in demand...
...Coca-Cola...
...determined annually. Its big subsidiary, United Gas Corp., halved its first preferred. Transamerica Corp. announced that while it could pay a dividend now it will not. Penick & Ford, Ltd. surprised Wall Street by doubling its usual 50? extra. Chesebrough Manufacturing and Bon Ami maintained their extra payments but Coca-Cola passed its usual $1 extra (blamed: taxation). R. H. Macy & Co. passed its usual 5% stock extra. Chesapeake & Ohio maintained its $2.50 rate and is the only U. S. road to pay the same dividend as in 1930. Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific (the "Queen & Crescent") passed its dividend...
White's vendor was its chairman, Robert Winship Woodruff, 42. Mr. W'oodruff became Atlanta's biggest businessman in 1923 when he resigned as vice president and general manager of Cleveland's White Motor Co. to become president of Atlanta's Coca-Cola Co. Although from 1923 to 1929 President Woodruff devoted his working hours to Coca-Cola (sales went from $24,000,000 to $39,000,000), he remained a director of White and so close a friend of the late Walter Charles White that a type of dual management almost existed between the two companies. When...