77 - Coca-Cola
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Coca-Cola Bottles - Can I Borrow a Third of a Dollar?
Coke was going great sold at these fountain things. People approached him saying, he should bottle this and send it around the country. But Candler thought there's no money in bottling Coke. So two men signed a deal to sell cocaine bottles for $1. They proved so popular they had to set up more bottling plans. The number of plans grew from two to more than 1,000 across the USA. 95% of them are locally owned and operated.
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