Re: Economic meltdowns in SF

Matthias Warkus <Warkus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>...

> Besides, Germany didn't shell American-owned factories in 1941
> either, they were seized. Coca-Cola GmbH continued to operate
> through at least 1943. 

Through the entire war, IIRC _For God, Country, and Coca-Cola_, 
though they were unable to get Coke syrup and had to produce other 
soft-drinks.  They invented the Fanta trademark as a result-- though 
the formula they were using then was apparently pretty much "whatever 
ingredients we can get our hands on"-- and provided water in Coca-
Cola bottles to air raid shelters.  (Which functioned both as 
emergency aid and a means around laws against advertising products 
unavailable due to the war.) They also successfully resisted 
government pressure to change the name from one so closely identified 
with the US.

But it looks to me as if Coca-Cola GmbH may not have been US-owned 
even before the war, instead operating via a franchise agreement 
where they paid royalties to the US company.  (Supposedly its first 
message back to the US after the war ended was "Coca-Cola GmbH still 
functioning.  Send auditors.")

Mike