Word: colas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kosher Cola...
Reports for 1934 are still dribbling in. Coca-Cola's common stock jumped ten points to $206 per share one day last week on news that last year's earnings were even more than expected-$14,300,000 as against $10,800,000 the year before. Standard Oil Co. of California reported profits up from $7,500,000 in 1933 to $18,300,000 last year. Colgate-Palmolive-Peet's profits increased tenfold...
When Prohibition ended many a U. S. investor believed that soft drink corporations like Coca-Cola would suffer, while companies making ginger ale and carbonated water as "mixings" would greatly benefit. Last week this belief was definitely exploded when Coca-Cola common marched into a new all-time high of $200 a share and Canada Dry Ginger Ale sank to a two-year low of $8.75. Canada Dry's directors had cut the quarterly dividend from 25? to 10? a share. White Rock Mineral Springs Co. sold off to a three-year low the week before when its directors...
...Coca-Cola, which has successfully weathered every change in public taste for 48 years, Repeal had no effect. Whereas the average soft drink begins to lose favor after five years, Coca-Cola has shown no sign of fading vogue since a patent medicine man named Pemberton first concocted it in 1886. Every management that takes control makes more money than its predecessors. The Candlers of Atlanta, who got the company in 1892, rose from humble druggists to become one of Atlanta's richest families. Asa Candler sold out for $25,000,000 in 1919 to a group of Georgia...
...Only Candler prominent in Coca-Cola today is the founder's son, Charles Howard, a director. Best known Candler in Atlanta is another son, Asa Griggs Jr., who keeps a zoo with three elephants in the front yard of his Druid Hills estate. Last month Asa Candler Jr., reported to be in financial difficulties, put up his pipe organ for sale, offered his house to the Decatur (Ga.) American Legion and his zoo to the city. Week later the Georgia Court of Appeals ordered him to pay $10,000 damages to a woman neighbor who charged that a baboon...