Word: cola
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...litter of empty Coca Cola bottles strewn around Landon headquarters. . . . Widow [Benjamin] Harrison entering a broadcasting booth, chatting carelessly, being told she was on the air and exclaiming, "Oh, that's very mean of you! ..." Knox supporters looking gloomily about their camp in Hotel Cleveland's ballroom after Landon's nomination and saying "Well, this is the 8-ball room, all right. . . ." John Hamilton sitting on a hotel breakfast table, white napery included, to interview the press. . . . The orchestra in Hotel Hollenden's cocktail room playing Happy Days Are Here Again at the instigation...
Because Kansas is traditionally Dry, many an Eastern toper loudly vows that he will vote for no Kansan who, as President, might favor a return to Prohibition. Alf Landon used to like a drink himself, but now he and his guests get nothing stronger than Coca-Cola. No fanatic on the liquor question, he says he accepts the 21st Amendment as the nation's will...
...their few hours of leisure the dancers rush for a cinema, a 5 & 10? store, a cut-rate druggist to buy their cosmetics. During rehearsals they subsist on milk, eat ravenously when a performance is over. Aboard train they will buy anything from ham sandwiches and chocolate to Coca-Cola "widout...
Have a midnight hamburger and a Coca-Cola to improve your marks. Last week Howard Haggard of Yale's Department of Applied Psychology praised the midnight snack as increasing the student's speed and efficiency. Dr. Haggard believes that his latest experiments will revolutionize America's eating habits...
...abandoned automobiles for trucks in 1918. During the War, White made its all-time production record of 15,000 units, most of which went to France. Management was in the hands of the founder's sons until 1929, when Walter White was killed in an automobile accident. Coca-Cola's Robert W. Woodruff then stepped in but soon found commuting between Coca-Cola offices in Atlanta and White's offices in Cleveland too strenuous. After Ashton G. Bean was installed as president, White went to the altar with Studebaker, but a 3% stockholders' minority was unable...