Word: cola
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twenty-two Pepsi-Cola scholars entered Harvard with the Class of 1952. This month they are graduating, after enduring four years of weary jokes about bottle caps and straws, but, as one literarily, inclined Pepsi scholar so aptly said, "It was worth...
Harvard was by far and away the most popular choice of the 489 Pepsi-Cola scholars chosen during the years 1945-48, a report on the scholarship program has revealed. The Program was discontinued in 1948 and the last of the winners graduates this month, thus prompting the scholarship board to make its evaluation of the entire program...
Just under ten percent of the 489 men and women took the Pepsi-Cola guarantee of all tuition paid and went off to Harvard, the report stated. It did not list the figures for those who attended women's colleges, but some winners presumably did enter Radcliffe...
...Germans want to tax allied business firms in Germany (General Motors, Esso, Coca-Cola, etc.), under a new and sweeping share-the-war-burden law.* Compromise: allied firms will be exempted for about two more years...
Tact for le tombeau. France pays her foreign fighters little ($3.89 a month for a recruit, $14.20 for a veteran of five years), and sends them to fight her toughest fights. No U.S.O. benefits or Coca-Cola bottling plants follow the Legion into battle. Old punishments like le tombeau (burial in sand up to the neck without food or water) and la crapaudine (24 hours in the sun with arms and legs tied together behind the back*) are no longer in official use, but discipline is still stern and often meted to a whole company...