Word: colas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mirror to the Fight Feelings run hard in the soft drink industry where brand-names and goodwill mean much. On every can of Pepsi-Cola is the following label...
...Against Coca-Cola. Last week Lawyers Edward Sidney Rogers and James Fulton Hoge prepared to defend their big client, Coca-Cola Co., in two damage suits. More important of the two was an action of $5,000,000 brought by Loft, Inc., candymaker and seller. Loft charged that Coca-Cola attempted to interfere with a Loft contract to sell Pepsi-Cola in its stores, threatened to attack the value of Loft stock ($2.50 last week) if the company would not sell Coca-Cola, sent agents to Loft soda fountains to hurt Loft's business by slander and intimidations. Filing...
...young musicians like to start showing what they can do. Few first recitals pay for themselves; the most successful debuts rarely realize more than a few hundred dollars. Tenor James Melton makes much more than that every week singing three or four easy songs over the radio for Coca-Cola. So it was obviously not for his supper that he sang last week in formal Town Hall. In Town Hall the programs put on by earnest young singers are fairly well standardized. They include a classical composer or two, groups of French and German songs, a final group in English...
...took its first European tour, young James Melton married Marjorie Louise McClure, daughter of Novelist Marjorie Barkley McClure. The Revelers earn their big money now broadcasting for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. over a nation-wide hookup. They broadcast for Buick too, over a midwestern hookup. With a substantial Coca-Cola contract be sides, James Melton will make an easy $100,000 this year. It enables him to live in an expensive penthouse apartment, keep a sailing yacht on the Hudson...
...addition of $3,078,000 to the surplus of $26,306,000 of the year before. Per share earnings on the average number of shares outstanding was $9.05. General Electric made $40,956,000 against $57,490,000 in 1930, reduced its dividend from $1.60 to $1. Coca Cola last year advertised more than the year before, sold slightly less of its product but had record earnings of $14,023,000 against...