Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tails" side of a puffin is the head of a puffin (sea bird with a parrotlike beak and white cheeks). Puffin Islanders also have puffin stamps. red and green, in puffin and half-puffin de nominations, each having a handsome steel engraving of a puffin perched on a rock...
...bottles with soft drinks and sold them for $650,000,000. The greatest single company in the field of carbonated beverages is Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc., although it accounts for only a small percentage of the total U. S. ginger ale output. Dominant in carbonated water is White Rock Mineral Springs Co., with over 90% of the output. Last week Canada Dry officials admitted there have been conversations looking toward a merger with White Rock. On the New York Stock Exchange the shares of both companies fluctuated in a ratio indicating that the rumored exchange of one share...
...White Rock. Visitors to Chicago's World Fair in 1893 were almost able to drink White Rock pumped directly from the company's springs in Waukesha, Wis. The scheme had been conceived by one Charles Welsh who had been given the springs by his uncle, but after several miles of pipe were laid, it was discovered that the cost was too great. Even without this brilliant stunt White Rock prospered. At first it had been sold only locally. Then a chance sample reached a Manhattan gambling hall owner who obtained a 50-year sales agency which the company later bought...
...water used in White Rock is taken from the company's springs, then carbonated at high pressure. Although it is claimed White Rock has medicinal properties, the company never stressed this in advertising but places emphasis on its use as a table water. Another product of the company is White Rock Pale Dry Ginger Ale which uses water from the Waukesha springs. Noncarbonated water is marketed under the name Still Rock...
...Mellon Institute (Pittsburgh) by the company. Engineering problems consist of speeding the bottling and making the amount of ginger uniform in each. Chemical research is concerned with the purity of the material used, the cleansing of the new bottles. Neither company buys back its old bottles, nor does White Rock...