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Waldo Peirce, grey-bearded, booming impressionist painter (TIME, May 29), journeyed from Bangor, Me. to Manhat tan to receive his $2,500 first prize in Pepsi-Cola's Portrait of America painting contest, first business-sponsored art competition to be judged by prominent artists and esthetes (including Rockwell Kent, Fernand Leger, Alexander Brook, Reginald Marsh, Max Weber). Peirce's prizewinner: a radiant Maine Swimming Hole. Peirce's comment: "I've already spent the money. ... I like Pepsi-Cola with rum in it.... Now maybe I'll even drink some straight...
...Manhattan, U.S. businessmen formed the China-America Council of Commerce and Industry, chairmanned by Thomas J. Watson, International Business Machines Corp. president and global good-willer already busy with ten other peace and international trade groups. The council of bigwigs is ready to supply China with everything from Pepsi-Cola to locomotives and Arrow collars. The C.A.C.C.I. plans to open an office in Chungking to facilitate two-way trade. This may well amount to a thumping total. In 1929, China imported only some $140,700,000 from the U.S., out of total imports of $820,000,000. With Germany...
...Department of Welfare, I may not be no king and to the King of England, I may not be no king, but to those poor, persecuted gypsies that I run myself knock-kneed looking after their personal welfare, I am king." A gin drinker, Johnny mixes it with Pepsi-Cola, calls it old popskull, consumes five quarts of gin a week. Johnny believes there are but two kinds of merchandise: "lost and unlost. Anything that ain't nailed down is lost." Johnny gets easily worked up over the idea of a job. "I despise to work," he says. "Gypsy...
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...keep soldiers & sailors away from strong drink, tons of pop are being rushed to U.S. bases all over the world. Thus Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola common stocks last week sold only an ace below 1942's highest prices...