Word: soda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...monetary masochists love it. There were 27,000 of them here Saturday and they crammed close to a million smackers through the mutual windows. By the time I left the paddock for the last race, they'd eaten all the hot dogs, guzzled all the orange soda, and started swilling warm beer...
...exset number of tables will be in proportion to the pinball machines that can be squeezed in around the wall space. These will be in addition to cigarette vendors and soda coolers. The whole business will be kept open until midnight, six hours later than the similar emporium located above Leavitt and Peirce...
...With its soda-pop and jellybean atmosphere, San Francisco's Blum's (rhymes with Tums) looks like any old-fashioned corner candy store. Blum's hustling, bustling proprietor, Fred Levy, 37, wants his customers to think that's just what it is. But the atmosphere is deceiving. Blum's sells more candy (780,000 lbs. last year in its San Francisco store alone) than any other retail store in the world, and has a list of mail-order customers that reads like Who's Who (among them: Eisenhower, Noel Coward, Jim Farley, Lauren Bacall...
They mobbed the refreshment counters, chucked ice cream bricks and pretzels through the air, and clambered all over the serving tables. The 30 cases of soda pop, 60 gallons of orange juice, 30 gallons of ice cream, and 15 cartons of pretzels were gone within an hour...
Last week, despite this record, buyers were waiting in line when the Browns once again went on the block. One of them was William DeWitt, 46, who got his start in baseball selling peanuts and soda pop, and worked up in 1936 to general manager of the club. Along with his big brother Charlie, 48, traveling secretary of the Browns for the past twelve years, Bill DeWitt scraped up some money and plunged in where other treading angels had gotten a hotfoot. The DeWitt brothers bought control (58%) of the Browns for about...