Word: cola
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alcoholic. Asa Griggs Candler Jr. was rich. In 1886, when he was only six years old, his druggist father secured the soft-drink formula on which he built the Coca-Cola fortune. But, says Asa Candler, "prosperity and affluence present hazards of their own. My story was the old familiar one of falling in with the wrong crowd." He became a drunk...
...Coca-Cola's Robert Winship Woodruff...
...Bureau of Labor Statistics last week completely revised its cost-of-living index to bring it up to date and include what Americans now consider "necessities." New BLS additions to the index: television sets, frozen foods, canned baby food, cola drinks, men's rayon tropical suits, home permanents, velocipedes, electric toasters...
...Atherton, Calif., Ty Cobb, baseball immortal and Coca-Cola stockholder, spent a day reading his 64th birthday mail and romping with his sour-faced boxer, "Chuddy." He was more than ever convinced that baseball should not be sacrificed even if the nation goes...
...first time, televiewers had a look this week at Mickey Mouse, Pluto, Donald Duck, Goofy and other characters in the enchanted animal kingdom created during the past twelve years by Walt Disney. The Christmas Day offering was put together by sponsor Coca-Cola in a $150,000 package called One Hour in Wonderland. Filmed in ten days at the Disney Studio in Burbank, Calif., the show had a plot line (a Christmas party on a sound stage), supporting actors (Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd, Bobby Driscoll), a jazz band and a parcel of applauding teen-agers (including Disney...