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...Cola Co., the name Woodruff has been as indispensable as "refreshes" in its slogan. It was Ernest Woodruff, a Southern financier, who bought the company in 1919 (for $25 million) and started its expansion. Four years later he turned it over to his hustling son Robert, who soon changed Coke from a corner-drugstore treat into one of the world's most widely sold products. In 1939 Woodruff became chairman of the executive committee, but remained top boss while presidents came and went. This week, 65, Coke's retirement age, Woodruff at last stepped out (he will remain...
...addition, thievery at Leverett has forced the candy stand operated on an honor system to discontinue the sale of all items like cigarette with a high wholesale cost. A dime attached to a wire was also discovered in a coke machine. Spoilage destroyed the contents of an ice-cream vender when someone pulled out the plug...
...Like businessmen, Bogotá's teen-agers resolve most of their problems by telephone, so a girl first sets up operational headquarters in a chair next to the phone table, with the radio close by, magazines spread all over the floor and an interminable Coke dangling from her free hand. 'The government' [her parents] does not understand at all, but getting up a teenage party requires agonizing preparation. Henry, a Tyrone Power type with a notably gay mambo style, won't come if Gladys is invited because she just put him in a state of siege...
Although Laborites could argue that Britain's prospering economy helped the rise, there was little doubt about the real reason for it: private capital. Held back when steel was nationalized, capital is once more flowing in to build new coke ovens, blast furnaces, rolling mills, etc. Now plans are under way to build one of the biggest strip mills in the world with a million-ton annual capacity at a cost of $280 million...
...addition, Fish heard from his future customers. Portland Gas & Coke Co. President Charles Gueffroy flatly refused to sign a contract for San Juan gas until he knew the price. Complained Gueffroy: "We are on the expensive tail end of the pipeline...