Word: colas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White Motor Co. is located at Cleveland, its products sell from $1,545 to $8,000. The headquarters of the Coca-Cola Co. are in Atlanta, Ga., its products sell from 5? to 10?. Yet these two $50,000,000 companies have long had something in common and last week that bond was strengthened...
Died. Walter C. White, 53, Coca-Cola director, longtime motor maker, who last year sold some $47,000,000 worth of White trucks and buses; of an internal hemorrhage, after an automobile accident; at Cleveland. Driving to work in a Stutz, he carromed into another car, hurtled into a vacant lot, fractured his right hip and leg. Out of the relics of his father's White Sewing Machine Co. grew White Motor Co., first manufacturing steam cars. Since 1921 he had been the company's president. During the War he was one of a committee to supervise...
Thus when Asa Griggs Candler, onetime (1889-1919) Coca-Cola King died last week in a hospital which he had founded overlooking a university which he had endowed, the company which he had so long managed belonged unquestionably to U. S. Big Business. During 1928, Coca-Cola showed a net of $10,189,000, an earning of $10.19 per share. At 105,000 soda fountains U.S. citizens were saying "Give me a Coca-Cola." At 600,000 retail outlets the corrugated little Coca-Cola bottle was being dispensed. Thirsty wayfarers in the U. S. and in 75 foreign countries consumed...
...Candler who originated Coca-Cola. Its inventor was one J. S. Pemberton, who, in 1886, made the first Coca-Cola in an old house on Marietta Street, Atlanta, Ga. During its first year Coca-Cola sold only 25 gallons and had for its outlets only Atlanta's three soda fountains. In 1889, however, Mr. Candler purchased an interest in the company (reputedly for $500) started to put Coca-Cola over in a large way. So successful was he that in 1919 the company was sold for $25,000,000, was organized as a Delaware corporation. The present management took...
Died. Asa Griggs Candler, 77, of Atlanta, Ga., Coca-Cola tycoon & philanthropist, brother of Methodist Bishop Warren A. Candler of Atlanta; in Atlanta...