To 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.
Sales of the $1,000,000,000-a-year soft drink business are not far from last year's all-time record, despite sugar rationing and the bottlecap shortage. Atop huge military shipments (all made from unrationed sugar), civilian sales are as big as the 80% sugar ration allows. To stretch sugar supplies, bottlers are using less cane sugar per drink,...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In