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Yes. Prefabricated Coca-Cola bottling plants. Eisenhower ordered 10 bottling lines and 6,000,000 bottles per month. To start. By the end of the war, Coca-Cola had over 60 bottling lines in war zones.[1]

[1] http://www.nww2m.com/2011/08/coca-cola-the-pause-that-refres...




“That's private property!” — Colonel "Bat" Guano in Dr. Strangelove (1964) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUAK7t3Lf8s


coca-cola is one of a very few companies in the usa licensed to handle coca leaves and to extract the cocaine from them, and coca-cola branches overseas have often been used for cia non-official cover. it's not all that private




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