Word: colas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Society itself appears to be dissolving," began a letter to William Candler, Coca Cola heir and proprietor of Atlanta's Hotel Biltmore. What Society needed, it went on, was a "directive class.'' Would Mr. Candler be the first to buy a title in the Nobility of the United States? Prices: Duke, $1,000,000; Marquis, $700,000; Count, $500,000; Baron, $200,000. To become a nobleman, Mr. Candler must choose his title, dispatch a check within 18 hours to one J. P. Reinach of Washington...
Sued by an infuriated Coca-Cola guzzler who claimed to have found bits of glass in his favorite drink, the Coca-Cola Co. last week summoned Curator Perry Wilbur Fattig of the Museum of Emory University (Atlanta, Ga.). Curator Fattig, with the blessing of a university which owes most of its wealth to the late Coca-Cola Tycoon Asa Candler, hurried off to a courtroom in Birmingham, Ala. By the time he arrived, looking like a sunburned Julius Caesar in a Palm Beach suit, the case had been settled out of court. But Curator Fattig, determined to do his part...
...priceless asset to Coca-Cola's claims department is Perry Wilbur Fattig. When a customer says he was harmed by something he found swishing around in the bottom of a Coca-Cola bottle, Curator Fattig stands ready to eat what the customer did. Most cases concern drowned bugs and Curator Fattig has convinced many a jury that creatures drowned in carbonated beverages are harmless. For Coca-Cola and other soft-drink makers he has eaten over 10,000 such creatures, including grasshoppers, crickets, sow bugs, snails, toads, frogs, caterpillars, earthworms, salamanders, tiger beetles, click beetles, praying mantes, stink bugs...
...Coca-Cola...
...connection with your interesting article on the celebration of Passover (TIME, April 29), you may be interested to know that, for the first time. Atlanta orthodox Jews were allowed to drink Coca Cola during this solemn season. With the approval of Atlanta rabbis, special Coca Cola bottle caps were stamped with the Kosher symbol and signs denoting the same were displayed in soda fountains. The drink was not altered...