Word: pepsi-cola
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...smoke from big black cigars supercharged the sticky heat of the basement cafeteria in Chicago's Wabash Avenue Y.M.C.A. A well-dressed, pipe-smoking Negro rose to address the third annual conference of the Negro Newspaper Publishers Association. His 75 listeners, full of fried chicken and Pepsi-Cola, were still wrought up about the issue of their press and their race...
...Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola last week called off their ten-year-old global battle over the word "cola," quietly announced: "All litigation pending throughout the world is to be dismissed without cost to either party...
First official U.S. raid was on the bulging stocks of Pepsi-Cola, which last week agreed with OPM to release 40,000 tons to New York refiners. But the 3.74? per lb. that Pepsi-Cola will get for its precious stocks will yield it a useful inventory profit (last year's average price: 3.4?)-for Pepsi-Cola, selling a 12-oz. bottle for the same price as Coca-Cola's 6-oz. bottle, has to be doubly careful of the cost of its materials...
...last week announced that chances of a sugar shortage this year are "remote." To the conditioned reflexes of the average citizen, that was enough to make the sugar scare scarier. Plenty of housewives had found the corner grocery store limiting their purchases to 2-5 lb. or less; Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Hershey Chocolate and other big sugar users were rationing customers to their 1940 consumption; there were whispers that the Government was printing sugar ration cards. What was the sugar score...
...excess stocks. This would be particularly galling to the big users who stocked up foresightedly last year, some of whom are said to have a two-year supply. Fearing such an order and considering curtailed sales, traders on the New York Stock Exchange last week sold Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola down to new 1941-42 lows...