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...Machines. Vending's technological revolution got its start right after World War II when Bert Mills Corp. of St. Charles, Ill., and Rudd-Melikian, Inc. of Hatboro, Pa., came out with hot coffee machines. Despite the unappetizing flavor of the first machine-served coffee-variations on Mississippi mud-it was an immediate success, and Rudd-Melikian Chairman K. Cyrus Melikian and President Lloyd Rudd are two more of vending's instant millionaires. It was coffee, too, that started Interstate's Wolff off seven years later when he got exclusive rights to the first machine to prepare coffee...
Died. Saro Melikian (born Solomon Teilirian), 63, Armenian hero acquitted in a sensational 1921 German trial despite his confession that he had assassinated Talaat Pasha, World War I Turkish Grand Vizier (who introduced genocide to the 20th century by ordering the massacre of 500,000 Armenians); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in San Francisco, where he was employed as an office clerk. Said Melikian to German police after his arrest: "It is not I who am the murderer; it is Talaat. I have lived only to revenge...
...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...