Word: colas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were 156 paintings in Pepsi-Cola's annual roundup of U.S. art which opened in Manhattan this week, and every single painting won a prize. It seemed like an ideal way to spend money (more than $41,000) without hurting anyone's feelings very much...
...recluse in their three-story Denver mansion, Charles Boettcher moved to a ninth-floor suite in the famed Brown Palace Hotel, which he owned. Hotel employees watched him every night as he went down in the elevator, walked across the street to a drugstore, bought a container of Coca-Cola, and carried it back to his room. Asked why he did not order from room service, Boettcher demanded indignantly: "And pay the prices we ask here?" Frequently, he would be spotted behind a screen in a dingy tailor shop while his trousers were being pressed. The Brown Palace...
...second item on the committee report was disapproval of the Band's plans for a summer trip to Latin America. "The University cannot allow Pepsi-Cola to advertise as presenting the Harvard University Band. We are very careful about that sort of thing," said Watson...
When the Pepsi-Cola Company expressed interest, Watson again disapproved unless all advertising was limited to the backs of concert tickets and programs, and no slogan such as "The Harvard Band Drinks Pepsi-Cola" be used...
...Pepsi-Cola award, four years a major U.S. art event, went this fall...