The Coke Machine - Michael Blanding [152]
Page 17 John G. Wilkes, who came: Elizabeth Candler Graham and Ralph Roberts, The Real Ones: Four Generations of the First Family of Coca-Cola (Fort Lee, NJ: Barricade, 1992), 6.
Page 17 Pemberton’s pharmacy laboratory as state-of-the-art: Pendergrast, 28-29; Allen, 27-28.
Page 17 fountain drinks containing kola nut: Tchudi, 25.
Page 18 company’s more recent official histories: The Coca-Cola Company, The Chronicle of Coca-Cola Since 1886 (Atlanta: The Coca-Cola Company, 1993); Coca-Cola Heritage, www.coca-cola.com/heritage.
Page 18 coined by one of Pemberton’s partners: Watters, 15; Pendergrast, 29; Allen, 28.
Page 18 label for the syrup: Charles Howard Candler, Asa Griggs Candler, Coca-Cola & Emory College (Atlanta: Higgins-McArthur, 1953), 10.
Page 18 just twenty-five gallons the first year: Robinson testimony, Koke; The Coca-Cola Company, Annual Report to the Stockholders, 1923.
Page 18 took to his bed with illness: Pendergrast, 34.
Page 19 neither drank nor smoked . . . scrap paper: Kahn, 59.
Page 19 mix up a single gallon: Graham and Roberts, 55.
Page 19 “more money to be made as a druggist”: Graham and Roberts, 39.
Page 19 Candler knew the real money . . . mysterious circumstances: Pendergrast, 44-46.
Page 19 the earliest records of the company burned: “The Beginning of Bottled Coca-Cola as Told by Mr. S. C. Dobbs,” October 13, 1913.
Page 20 handing out tickets for free Cokes: Allen, 29.
Page 20 Each soda fountain operator got: Asa G. Candler to Warren Candler, Atlanta, April 10, 1888, reprinted in Candler, Asa Griggs Candler, Coca-Cola & Emory College.
Page 20 more than 100,000 drinks a year: Pendergrast, 60.
Page 20 Sales took off . . . 50,000 gallons: The Coca-Cola Company, Annual Report, 1895.
Page 20 posting on Coke’s corporate website: Phil Mooney, January 30, 2008, Coca-Cola Conversations: Did you know? 1886 vs. today, http://www.coca-colaconversations.com/my_weblog/2008/01/did-you-know-18.html.
Page 20 early copy of the formula: Pendergrast, 56; Mark Pendergrast, “Cocaine Information, Amount in Vin Mariani, French Wine Coca, Coca-Cola,” Pendergrast collection, Emory University.
Page 20 Georgia Pharmaceutical Association in 1891: “Analysis of Coca-Cola, Analysis No. 7265, Office of H. R. Slack, M.D., Ph.G.,” reprinted in Coca-Cola, What Is It? What It Is (The Coca-Cola Company, 1901).
Page 21 narcotic kick on his letterhead: Constance L. Hays, The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company (New York: Random House, 2004), 102.
Page 21 Pamphlets he handed out to retailers: Atlanta Constitution, June 19, 1891.
Page 21 “a very small proportion”: Asa G. Candler testimony, Henry A. Rucker v. The Coca-Cola Company, U.S. Circuit Court, District of Georgia, 52.
Page 21 wasn’t entirely removed: Graham and Roberts, 19.
Page 21 needed to raise at least $50,000: Allen, 38.
Page 21 One of the very first corporations: Joel Bakan, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), 8.
Page 22 “directors of such companies”: Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1895), 311.
Page 22 The corporation took off: Bakan, 7.
Page 22 more than three hundred: Jack Beatty, ed., Colossus: How the Corporation Changed America (New York: Broadway Books, 2001), 5.
Page 22 And unlike their British counterparts . . . beginning in the 1830s: Beatty, 45-46.
Page 22 No corporations were as successful: Beatty, 103-112.
Page 22 corporations were chartered by states . . . any purpose they desired: Richard L. Grossman and Frank T. Adams, “Taking Care of Business: Citizenship and the Charter of Incorporation,” in Dean Ritz, ed., Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy (New York: The Apex Press, 2001), 59-72.
Page 23 concept of “limited liability”: Bakan, 11-13.
Page 23 declared corporations to be virtual “persons”: David C. Korten, The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism (West Hartford, CT, and San Francisco: Kumarian Press and Berrett-Koehler, 1999), 184-186.
Page 23 And in