Word: woodruff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, the heart of Coca-Cola remains Atlanta, and its hard, all-powerful head remains Robert Winship Woodruff...
...father, Ernest Woodruff, who in 1919, for $25 million, bought the Coca-Cola company from Asa G. Candler, who in turn had got it from Inventor Pemberton for $1,750. Hardy old Ernest Woodruff was accused by his enemies of every sharp business trick in the book, and suspected even by his friends of chewing broken Coca-Cola bottles to strengthen his teeth. Son Bob is a chip off the old block. The steel of Young Bob's determination early clashed with the flint of his father's will, and the resulting sparks could have lit up Atlanta...
Other winners are: Betty I. Bandeen, James T. Bonnen 1G, John A. Bradshaw '41 4G, A. George Davis 3G, Gifford B. Doxsee 2G, Joseph Finkelstein 2G, Norton M. Hintz 3G, Eloise Knapp, Clement Moritz 4G, Nancy Nimitz, Clifton J. Phillips 1G, and Bertram L. Woodruff...
...morning in 1850 the fledgling Deseret News carried the announcement that "Elder Woodruff has arrived [from the East] with two tons of school books." With Mormon Woodruff and his books, formal education came to the three-year-old settlement that was to grow into Salt Lake City...