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Canton Repository
March 4, 2018
President Lyndon Johnson tees off at golf after arriving at Ramey Air Force base on March 3, 1968 in Puerto Rico. The president and his wife Lady Bird brought their daughter Luci, their grandson, Patrick Lyndon, and son-in-law Patrick Nugent to the island for a weekend of rest in the sun. (AP Photo).
The Fayetteville Observer
March 3, 2018
RALEIGH — You couldn't help but look down the way at the gray house, where once Bennie and Ruth McMinis were a post World War II couple raising a son and a daughter along Arlington Avenue. He was a plumber by trade. She was a homemaker. “She and Bennie were truly partners in life,” the Rev.
Buffalo News
March 1, 2018
Ever wonder why "Buffalo" can be spotted on the retro Pepsi-Cola logo on some vintage hockey jerseys? Colin Dabkowski did, and he looked into what might be "one of the more brazen marketing moves in local sports history." Turns out the Pepsi-Cola Buffalo Bottling Co. and the AHL's Buffalo BisonsÃâà...
Snopes.com
March 1, 2018
Among the other food and beverage items falsely alleged to have been contaminated with the virus that causes AIDS are pineapples, oranges, bananas, canned goods, and soft drinks, including Pepsi-Cola. This is the guys who added his infected blood to Pepsi :)#Copied pic.twitter.com/4rf5m2a5XR.
Buffalo News
February 21, 2018
The family finally sold the Buffalo Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company in 2002. The Pastor brothers began their business after purchasing a used delivery truck for $40. "Pastor and his brothers," according to a Buffalo News obituary of Ruby Pastor in 1985, "battled competitors in New York City who tried to tip overÃâà...
Food Processing
February 20, 2018
Diet Pepsi Cola may be going back to using aspartame, a report in Ad Age claims. The diet soft drink brand may experience a sweetener reversal since PepsiCo pulled the artificial sweetener in 2015, in a marketing move over safety concerns, and replaced it with sucralose and Ace-K. The company faced a consumerÃâà...
WCTI12.com
February 20, 2018
Richard Blythe, a former New Bern fire chief and an employee of the Birthplace of Pepsi-Cola, New Bern, died on Saturday. Posts confirming his passing were made on the Birthplace of Pepsi-Cola Facebook along with the West of New Bern Fire Department Facebook page. Blythe's death comes just a fewÃâà...
In Defence of Marxism
February 5, 2018
A great victory has been won by striking workers of the Pepsi-Cola factory in Faisalabad, industrial hub of Pakistan. On 29 January 2018, almost 250 workers completely shut the factory down in solidarity with three colleagues who had been laid-off by the administration without prior notice. The threeÃâà...
CityLab
December 31, 1999
And if 270 Park comes down, so will a key part of the legacy of pioneering female architect Natalie de Blois. De Blois, who joined the renowned architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) in 1944 and passed away in 2013, helped design headquarters for the Lever Brothers, Pepsi-Cola, and UnionÃâà...
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