Word: fountaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Robert W. Woodruff, 95, former president and chairman of Coca-Cola, whose active association with the company spanned six decades until his retirement from the board last year, and whose leadership built a debt-ridden, one-product soda-fountain business into a giant multinational, making Coke a favorite in all but a few countries and merely one of the company's 250 products, which included flavor essences, citrus drinks and coffee; in Atlanta. Woodruff was also a prodigious philanthropist who gave away an estimated $350 million, much of it anonymously, to medicine, the arts and education...
...test of the fountain last Monday and Tuesday revealed that winds above 15 knots blow away the water vapor, ruining the fountains rainbow affect, Oommen said...
Temperature and wind sensors are in the process of being calibrated, but Oommen said he doesn't expect the fountain to operate again until mid-April when water, rather than steam, will fuel the fountain's rainbow effect...
...This fountain is the first of its kind in the world, and we want to be very careful and deliberate so as not to hurt anyone," said Oommen, adding that he expects the fountain to be fully functional by next winter...
...fountain, which was designed last year by Peter Walker, former chairman of the Landscape Architecture Program at the Graduate School of Design, is endowed by its donor for six hours of running time a day, according to Oommen. Oommen did not comment on the amount of money saved or lost due to the fountain's inactivity over the winter...