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...Cola has landed an "army of workers," shiploads of machinery and trucks, Coca-Cola has only ten Americans on its Italian staff (Italian employees run into the thousands). The company uses Italian equipment in making the drink (as in the U.S., Coca-Cola restricts itself to the sale of syrup, leaving the more profitable bottling operation to local businessmen), employs Italian printers for advertising and uses Italian trucks for distribution. Isotta Fraschini has just produced a truck which the company thinks is better-looking than the American design, and which it plans to export to company branches in other countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Italian Invasion | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...Montmartre), half-educated trumpets got in their licks, and demi-lingual cries, Tokyo boogie-woogie, rhythm uki-uki, Kokoro zuki-zuki, waku-waku, jarred the night. Pickup bands were a yen a dozen, and most Japanese seemed to have the yen. They liked it blue, hot, and syrup-sweet, and called it all jazzu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jazzy | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...costs (minor item: its annual art awards have been abandoned), and the company has a new eight-ounce bottle to sell for 5? at race tracks and ball parks. For home consumption, there is still the old twelve-ounce bottle (new price: 6?). Pepsi also has a new syrup pump for drugstores; at the first plunge, it plays the Pepsi jingle. To cash in on these new ideas, Mack has brought Coca-Cola Vice President Al Steele into the company as sales boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Questions & Answers | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Only the Livestock. Now being shown in Latin America and Australia and still going strong in the U.S., Mom and Dad is a knowing mixture of syrup, spice and corn. It blends scenes of childbirth, a Caesarean operation and the ravages of venereal disease into a tear-squeezing fable about a high-school girl who "got into trouble" because her parents kept her in ignorance. (Catch lines: "It Happens Somewhere Every Night," "Millions Learned the Hard Way, But You Can See the Facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Something for the Soul | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...thirty-three year supply. Using this preserved meat is the essence of husbandry. The jars, now freed of their contents, could be melted down and utilized to augment Harvard's famous glass flowers exhibition. Even the formaldehyde not vaporized in cooking the specimens could be substituted for the syrup on the breakfast French toast without creating any particular commotion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 4/1/1949 | See Source »

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