Word: melikian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hottest company in the automatic coffee business is Rudd-Melikian, Inc., a Pennsylvania firm founded by two wartime Air Force buddies in 1946. After experimenting with an old soft-drink machine, Captain Lloyd K. Rudd and Sergeant K. Cyrus Melikian developed an automatic dispenser that uses a quick-frozen concentrate called Kwik-Kafe. The partners grossed $14 million in 1955, have 700 employees and 250 licensed distributors servicing companies throughout the U.S. and Canada; e.g., Eastman Kodak Co. has 100 machines which sell 280,000 cups a month to workers in its Rochester plant...