Word: cola
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russell for fairness, Washington's Senator Henry Jackson for enduring youth, Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas for scholarly character, Alabama's Senator Lister Hill for hard work, Texas' Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn for planning ability, Alabama's Representative Frank Boykin for handshaking, Coca-Cola's James J. Farley for his memory for names, Independence's Harry Truman for the common touch, Mrs. Richard Neuberger (wife of Oregon's junior Senator) for her campaign ability. Notable modest omission: Tennessee's Presidential Candidate Estes Kefauver for his White House fixation...
From Soap to Beer. One nobleman wrote Vicki: "I am prepared to plug anything from Coca-Cola, which I don't drink, to the Democratic Party, though I prefer the Republican, and can be sour or sweet, bellicose or pacific, to order." Lord Scarsdale, 57, of the famed Curzon family, a 2nd Viscount, 6th Baron and loth Baronet all in one, enclosed a pamphlet with his job application, detailing the glories of his ancestral home, Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire. Not counting those with hyphenated names claiming to be direct descendants of William the Conqueror ("If they...
...same happy tale, with its $2,840,364 earnings setting an alltime second-quarter high for the company and more than doubling its earnings of $1,401,298 during the period last year. The high level of consumer income and spending showed up in food-company earnings. Pepsi-Cola hit the brightest spot: six-month net shot up to $4,300,000, an 80% gain over last year...
...February of 1930, Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell proudly proclaimed, "There is no such thing as a Harvard type." Today more Harvard men represent the midwest and the far-west, but the University has yet to achieve recognition of its "type." While the movies and cigarettes and coca-cola grow bigger, the College Undergraduate still acts and thinks in his own private little way and a history of the final two years of today's reunion class could easily substitute for the last two of today's graduating class...
GIANT COKES, tried out in test markets since last year (TIME, Oct. 11), will soon be sold nationally. So far, some 200 local Coca-Cola bottlers have asked permission to put out either "king-size" (10-to-12-oz.) or "family-size" (26-oz.) bottles, and the parent company has given them the green light...