Word: colas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Castro's captive newspapers counted 280 bus breakdowns on Havana's streets in one day alone recently. "What am I supposed to do when this thing finally goes-join the militia?" said the disgruntled driver of a 1953 Cadillac taxi. Cubans are leary of the Coca-Cola they drink-it has been known to contain cockroach eggs; in bars they pointedly order Coke "sin bacilli" (without germs). "My father would be very sad to see this," said the son of the late president of Coca-Cola in Cuba...
Dreaded Audit. For most taxpayers, the arithmetic check is the last made on their returns. But the IRS selects about 5% of all the returns for more thorough checking-the dreaded audit. The criteria used for auditing are as closely guarded as the formula for Coca-Cola, vary from year to year to keep the taxpayer off guard. Those who have run into trouble in a previous year almost invariably get a second or third look. Upper bracket incomes get special scrutiny, and if a taxpayer makes more than $25,000 a year, the odds are 1 in 4 that...
...their baggage behind), the Boeing flew at maximum altitude along a route (Milan, Barcelona, Madrid) that avoided all French territory and, four hours later, put down at the U.S. Air Force Base at Nouasseur, Morocco, where F.L.N. Pre mier Benyoussef Benkhedda and a clutch of Moroccan officials sipped Coca-Cola -courtesy of the base commander - while they waited...
...people. I was scared." But candid, headstrong young Grace was not so frightened that he failed to see his company needed refurbishing. To beef up Grace's diminishing core of top executives, he personally set about hiring topflight new executives from Montgomery Ward, Coca-Cola and Jersey Standard. Simultaneously, he set up a statistical study division to find ways of overhauling Grace's traditional operations and to seek out new enterprises that would reduce the company's excessive concentration in Latin America...
...president of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Boston would reveal little yesterday about the negotiations held during a month-old strike which ended Wednesday...