Word: cola
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Tooting into Paris after a two-month jam session in Africa as good-will ambassador for Pepsi-Cola and the State Department, leather-lunged Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong confided to the New York Herald Tribune's Art Buchwald that the Congo-for Satchmo, anyway-is as safe as a cat's own front porch. "Half the times I didn't know whether I was in the Congo or out of it," graveled Armstrong. "Them African places all look alike. But Léopoldville was great. I had three armies escorting me everywhere I went. There...
...thanks to lower costs and rapidly growing markets. H. J. Heinz makes half its sales in foreign markets, and this half produces two-thirds of all Heinz profits. Chesebrough-Pond's gets 57% of its profits from the 40% foreign slice of its sales, Coca-Cola 40% from 35%, Colgate-Palmolive 64% from 51% and International Telephone & Telegraph 75% from 60%. In most of the industrialized free-world countries, there are few or no restrictions on returning profits to the firm's home country...
...cheer him, including the "all-powerful" King of the Ashantis, King Nana Sir Osei Agyeman Prempeh II. The object of all this adulation was U.S. Trumpet Ace Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, on a gravelly-voiced West African tour last week designed to persuade Africans to drink more Pepsi-Cola. Admission fee to the outdoor concerts by Satchmo and his six All-Stars: five Pepsi-Cola bottle tops and 1 shilling...
Pepsi shelled out some $300,000 to send Satchmo and the All-Stars on the tour to promote five new West African bottling plants worth $6,000,000, help Pepsi in its war with Coca-Cola. The plants are owned and operated by Africans under license from Pepsi-Cola, will have a capacity of 8,000,000 cases of Pepsi a year. In changing West Africa, where the people love sweet, fizzing drinks and where foreign businessmen are finding that they must hard-sell for the first time, Satchmo's long-holding C note was an advertising message understood...
Inherit the Wind (Stanley Kramer; United Artists). On July 10, 1925, at the height of a heat wave that fairly boiled the Coca-Cola in the jury's veins, a 24-year-old school teacher named John Thomas Scopes went on trial in the hill-country town of Dayton, Tenn. ("the buckle of the Bible Belt") while half the world wondered and a fair cross-section of it sat sweating in the courtroom. The charge: that Schoolteacher Scopes, by propounding Darwin's theory of evolution to his classes, had violated a Tennessee statute that refused him the right...