Word: coca
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Even the lunch toters were in for trouble at the soft-drink counter. In New York City, bottled Coca-Cola broke loose from its famous nickel moorings for the first time and went on to 6?. Other cities might have it worse: half of the nation's 6,000 soft-drink bottlers had upped their wholesale case price. Beer also went...
...defense called Homer Marsh to the stand and pointed to a half-empty Coca-Cola bottle standing on a railing near the witness stand. Would a Coke with a dead mouse in it give a fellow recurring stomach spasms? Witness Marsh, a bacteriologist at University of Oklahoma medical school, said it would not. He had inspected the Coca-Cola Co.'s local bottling plant, admired its sanitary precautions and felt sure that no mouse, dead or alive, could have gotten into the bottle at the plant...
After everybody had eaten lunch and the judge was satisfied that Homer Marsh was still none the worse, his honor tossed out the $8,000 damage suit against the Oklahoma Coca-Cola Bottling Co. The judge dismissed the jury. "I hope you have a nice meal tonight," said the judge, "... and a bottle of Coke...
Your Show of Shows (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). Host: Melvyn Douglas. Stars: Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca...
Died. Samuel Candler Dobbs, 81, a director, onetime (1919-20) president and longtime (1892-1919) chief booster of the Coca-Cola Co.; in Lakemont, Ga. At 18, Dobbs came out of the Georgia backwoods, got a job as porter in the Atlanta drugstore of his uncle Asa Griggs Candler. When Candler bought the Coca-Cola formula from the druggist who invented it, young Dobbs became its first salesman, boomed it locally as "Delicious & Refreshing" instead of as a headache remedy, later began to make it a national habit by spending millions (over Candler's objections) on advertising...