Word: cola
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...become such a popular drink that U.S. sales of quinine water will probably triple this summer to 3,000,000 cases. Canada Dry's Quinac will get the biggest share of the market. But Britain's famed Schweppes tonic, now bottled in the U.S. by Pepsi-Cola, will be more competitive this year, with its price cut from about 40? to 16?-18? a bottle...
Canned Pop. Soft drinks in cans will be put on the market next month for the first time by Cantrell & Cochrane Corp., headed by former Pepsi-Cola President Walter S. Mack. Advantage of the cans, said Mack, is that they take 25% less room than bottles in the refrigerator, chill 21% faster, and require no deposit. Price...
...such, he became the best known in the U.S. to newsmen, and his Manhattan firm of Steve Hannagan Associates made millions getting the public better acquainted with such clients as Miami Beach, the Union Pacific Railroad, Coca-Cola, Owens-Illinois Glass, the Indianapolis Speedway and 30-odd others. It was Steve Hannagan-a pressagent with an unabashed circus flair-who made the bathing girl a stock shot for the American press, and who persuaded newspaper readers that Prizefighter Gene Tunney was really a Shakespearean scholar...
...fixture at Manhattan and Florida nightspots, where twice-divorced Hannagan was oftenest in the company of Cinemactress Ann Sheridan. In work & play, he traveled at such a pace that one friend said: "He lived three lives. When Hannagan flew to Africa it was, as usual, on business (for Coca-Cola). There, last week, his speedway pace caught up with him. At 53, in his hotel room at Nairobi Kenya, Hannagan died of a heart attack. In tribute, spoke Roy Howard: "No training, however good, made Steve the way he was. He was a natural...
...tropical climes, an indispensable rejuvenator to hard-working British colonials is gin & tonic. The tonic has always meant Schweppes, a bitter, effervescent quinine water supposed to ward off malaria & malaise. Last week Schweppes took steps to colonize the U.S. It made a deal with Pepsi-Cola Co. giving Pepsi sole rights to bottle Schweppes in North America, and Schweppes will buy Pepsi's plants in England. Within a few months, Schweppes hopes to ship its concentrate to the U.S., cut its price from 40? to about 15? for a 10-oz. bottle, and be selling as much quinine water...