Word: cola
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...official weather vanes swing into line. In stormy Poland he is a longtime Stalinist timeserver named Jerzy Putrament. When Wladyslaw Gomulka broke with Moscow last October, Comrade Putrament was so enthusiastic in Gomulka's support that Pravda publicly rebuked him for saying that he preferred "imperialist Coca-Cola to the best home-distilled vodka." Last month Weatherman Putrament held up a moist forefinger and got the feel of a new breeze blowing through Poland. The country, he said forthwith, was drifting away from Socialism into anarchy, thus creating the danger of "Hungarian tragedies." He accused the young hotheads...
...chieftain's long adobe hut, with evenly-spaced, pointed buttresses made of mud that speared high above the slanted roof. Weese tucked it away for future reference. Then he went hunting for mahogany, which turned out to be so plentiful in Accra that it is used for Coca-Cola crates. Using that primitive tool of building research, the knife, he personally verified two facts: 1) termites feast on mahogany (the reason builders had stopped using it), but. 2) heartwood mahogany, placed well up from the ground, had resisted the white ants 60 years and more. He also checked...
...York, wanting to know if it is true that the Negroes have placed a guard on their leaders' homes and churches. "Why, yes," says King, "but it isn't new. We've been watching them for some time now." In an alcove next to a Coca-Cola machine, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy works at his desk, making final preparations for that night's mass meeting...
...very thorough analysis of Stalinist methods." Other papers have run glowing stories on the "truly democratic" U.S. and Western prosperity. The Culture Ministry's official organ recently published an article on the U.S. economy by a Communist official who noted sardonically that he "prefers imperialist Coca-Cola to the best home-distilled vodka...
Flavored Beer. A light alcoholic drink with a cola, punch or Collins flavor was put on the market by the Weber-Waukesha Brewing Co. of Waukesha, Wis. Manufactured under the patent of Chicago's Sassy International Inc., the drink is made with hops and has about the same alcoholic content as beer. Price for four 7-oz. bottles: under...