Word: sodas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shows. Gate receipts for the three Davis Cup days were already $145,000 plus. The ten days of National Singles play would probably bring in nearly $150,000 more. The concessionaires were getting ready to serve up a record-breaking 30,000 hot dogs and 48,000 bottles of soda pop. Each morning, the 23 grass courts were being rolled a little nearer perfection...
...Each train had a special bar car-a freight car, fixed up inside with bright paint and a sort of juke box. In one car alone there were 352 cases of Blatz beer, about $25 worth of pretzels and popcorn and potato chips, cases and cases of coke and soda...
...first day, about 5,000 people stomped in off the blaring midway for a look, munching hot dogs and sipping soda pop. The farmers and their families did a double-quick shuffle around the big brick Exposition Building's art wing, and then moved on, with something like relief, to the more familiar exhibits. Said one dejected official: "These people come to see the latest harvesting machines, threshers and milking equipment, but what they want in art is what they saw in grandmother...
...Pete" Bostwick had scandalized some of polo's elders 13 years ago by putting on 50? polo matches complete with soda pop. Now he dipped into his Standard Oil millions and came up with a $5,000 purse for a handicap tournament-the first cash prize ever offered in polo. His ambition is to convert polo into a mass-appeal sport in which a man can make a living from his winnings...
...conclusion that many Americans will find distasteful, and more will dispute: "This too had to be granted, that we were the creatures of the history into which we were born. Had the seventy million Germans been born in America, they would have lived out their lives drinking soda pop. And had our nation of Americans been Germans, Andrew Cooper among them, we would have divided just as inevitably into Gestapomen and victims, a few of us heroes. It was history which exposed or concealed our capacities for brutality, heroism or cowardice. . . . History was the litmus paper...