Word: colas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Uncle Remus. "All I did was to write out and put in print the stories I had heard all my life.'1 Because of this statement, ascribed to the late Joel ("Uncle Remus") Chandler Harris by his daughter-in-law last week, Coca-Cola Bottling Co. contended that Brer Fox, Brer Rabbit and their friends were products of "the indigenous folklore of Southern negroes for many generations back." The contention was important, for $10,000,000 hangs upon the Court's decision as to whether or not. recent Coca-Cola advertisements featuring Brer Fox et al. have infringed...
...interest to fewer investors, less important as a business index, but perhaps the most remarkable 1930 statement yet to appear was that of Coca-Cola Co. Profits hit a new high record of $13,515,000 against $12,758,000 in 1929. Gallon sales rose from 26,981,874 to 27,798,730. U. S. sales amounted to a per capita Coca-Cola consumption of 28 bottles. Responsible for this showing, said Coca-Cola officials, was an extra $1,000,000 spent on advertising last year, and an extra $500,000 on sales efforts. Also beneficial: cheap sugar...
Robert Winship Woodruff, 41, president of Coco-Cola Co. and White Motor Co., resigned the latter position, became chairman. New White president is Ashton G. Bean, previously president of Bishop & Babcock, Cleveland manufacturers of bottlers' and soda fountain machinery...
Next morning from Candler Field, "the Coca-Cola airport," the party-all were deadheads-took off without ceremony in two great 18-passenger Curtiss Condors, deep brown with grey wings, and two new Curtiss Kingbirds (orange with brown wings), and a Ford and a Fokker...
...liquor market is too wide open. Chesapeake Bay shipping provides wealthy Vets with expensive foreign goods. As U. S. attorney Mr. Woodcock used to leave his apartment on Charles Street every evening at 10 o'clock, walk to the corner drug store, toss down a milk shake, Coca Cola or lime phosphate. Once he set Baltimore tongues to wild wagging by escorting Mrs. Willebrandt to the opera. He failed to convict John Philip Hill, flagrantly Wet onetime Congressman, for public home-brewing in Baltimore...