Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brand-new soft-drink plant at Compton, Calif., a stocky, 68-year-old engineer slopped around in spilled root-beer syrup, adjusting, testing and breaking in $450,000 worth of canning machinery. Allan Baldwin Rogers was at his favorite job: getting a new Can-a-Pop plant into production...
...watched, a Rogers-designed dispenser measured a shot of syrup into a 12-02. can, a carbonator fizzed it full of sparkling water, a sealer crimped on a flat top, and the first can of root beer rolled off the line of Can-a-Pop's third and largest plant (one of the largest in the country). By last week Rogers had his clashing $1,250,000 cannery up to peak production of 30,000 cases daily...
...Right Ahead." For the first time in five months, the general had come out of the rural isolation of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises (pop. 312) to exhort his withering but still formidable army into renewed assaults on the French government and its policies. For France's most powerful ally, he had recrimination: "The U.S. wishes to hold in check the Soviet block-but not engage its own troops . . .They sent money and material to Indo-China-but left the French to do the fighting. They are ready to arm any country to fight the Russians-and if necessary command...
Fourth nation to ratify EDC: the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (pop. 300,000), last week, by a parliamentary vote of 46 to 4 (the four are Communists). Already recorded for ratification: Belgium, The Netherlands, West Germany. Still to decide: Italy, France...
...seat of a crimson Chevrolet convertible and headed a brass-band parade up the Kronprindsensgade (Crown Prince Street) and down the Dronningensgade (Queen Street). At the Emancipation Garden where the Danes* freed their slaves in 1848, he was sworn in as the first Republican governor of the Virgin Islands (pop. 26,665, of whom 91% are of Negro or mixed blood...