It is researching ways to increase revenue; to do this the organization is seeking financing to revamp its manufacturing process. Company and operations The market for this business began with a small New York City candy shop 1896 with an oblong, chewy chocolate that became known as the Tootsie Roll (Welcome to Tootsie: Corporate History, n.d.). The popularity of the first individually wrapped penny candy thrust this mom and pop store into an international enterprise. Operations are headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with additional businesses located in Massachusetts, New York, Tennessee, Mexico, and Canada; licensing is held in Columbia and the Philippines (Tootsie Roll Industries Inc. History, 1996). Confronting competition from Nestlé’s, Hershey’s, and Mars for the chocolate markets, Tootsie Roll also produces lollipops and nonchocolates such as Tootsie Roll Pops, Charms, and Blow – Pops.
Name______________________________ Date _________________ Block _______ Plop-Plop Fizz-Fizz Lab Problem: Does the physical size of an Alka-seltzer tablet effect how fast it dissolves? Background: The idea came from a newspaper editor in Elkhart, Indiana, in the 1920s and was brought to the public by Hub Beardsley, president of the Dr. Miles Laboratories (now Miles Laboratories). Beardsley learned that an entire newspaper staff had remained free of influenza during an epidemic when they took the editor's prescription of aspirin and baking soda. Beardsley knew he had found a moneymaking product.
It was hard for Milton to get started ad he did fail trying to sell candy for the first time. Still, he did not give up. Milton worked hard to invent mouth-watering new recipes and expand his factory. He created work for people who needed jobs and schools for orphan boys and girls. He was able to help the soldiers during World War II which means, chocolate goes to war.
Geisel took the bet and set about writing Green Eggs and Ham, intent on creating a book for very young readers that was both educational and fun to read. Early drafts of the manuscript show Geisel’s strict attention to this word count: He keeps close watch on the number of words he has used at the bottom of the manuscript’s pages. Published in 1960, Green Eggs and Ham ranks among the top-selling children’s books of all time. 5- Dr. Seuss's fictional character the Lorax has real
Name: Bubble Gum Physics Lab Purpose: To introduce students to physics and speed Hypothesis: Who in your lab group can chomp gum the fastest? Safety: Don’t choke, don’t bite your tongue, don’t drool **READ ALL DIRECTIONS FOR EACH PART BEFORE STARTING!! ** Part 1: • Get a piece of bubble gum • Use a stopwatch to time 30 second intervals • Count the number of chomps you can do in 30 seconds and record it in Table 1 • Repeat this 5 times • Spit that gum out in the trash Data Table 1- |Trial |Chomps |Time |Speed | |1 | |:30 | | |2 | |:30 | | |3 | |:30 | | |4 | |:30 | | |5 | |:30 | | Speed = # of chomps time Part 2: • Get a new piece of bubble gum • Using a stopwatch to time 60 seconds start chewing • Have a partner count the number of chomps you can do, record the number at 20 seconds, 40 seconds & 60 seconds (This is for speed! Chew fast!) • Record the number of chomps data in table 2 Data Table 2- |Time |Chomps |Speed | |20s | | | |40s | |
Alex Khan Section-7 9-25-10 What happens when you mix Coke and Mentos? Introduction: Who would have ever guessed that dropping mentos chewy mints into a bottle of soda would produce viral reaction? My group and I describes the reaction as "this generation's reaction to vinegar and baking soda." The reaction, a giant eruption of soda, is as mysterious as it is sensational. Although the phenomenon of dropping candy and mints into soda to release the carbonation has been around for years, we still decided to give it a shot in our science experiment.
So he mixed a banana-flavored crème and injected it into the shortcake using three syringe-like injection tubes. And so, a new snack was born. But what to name it? Dewar was having trouble coming up with a name until he drove past a billboard for the Twinkle Toes Shoes factory in St. Louis. A friend suggested the name “Twinkle Fingers” for the snack, and Dewar shortened it to Twinkies.
They really did help him he ended up graduating top of his class. As a reward for doing so well in school Junior for his eighteenth birthday got to go pick out any car he wanted, from Hollywood Cadillac Company, Junior picked out a blue 1921 type 59. After only having the car for a few days Junior had to get his oil and tires replaced on his new car, from driving it an extremely long ways joy riding. In October of that year we sent Junior off to college at Stanford University where he would study to become a doctor. I was extremely proud of him he met what he thought to be the love of his life Miss Daisy Windsor.
GROWTH OF COCA COLA The Coca-Cola recipe was made at the Eagle Drug and Chemical Company, a drugstore in Columbus, Georgia by John Pemberton, originally as a coca wine called Pemberton's French Wine Coca. In 1886, when the county passed legislation which prohibited the alcoholic version, Pemberton responded by developing Coca-Cola, a non-alcoholic version. The soft drink was first sold to the public in Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta on May 8, 1886. It proved popular in the United States at the time due to the belief that carbonated water was good for the health. Pemberton claimed Coca-Cola cured many diseases, including morphine addiction, dyspepsia, neurasthenia and headache.
In 1898, Caleb Bradham wisely bought the trade name "Pep Cola" for $100 from a competitor in Newark, New Jersey that had gone broke. His assistant James Henry King, a young African American was the first to taste the new drink. In 1902, Bradham launched the Pepsi-Cola Company in the back room of his pharmacy and on December 24, 1902 the Pepsi-Cola Company was incorporated in the state of North Carolina. The business began to grow, and on June 16, 1903, "Pepsi-Cola" was officially registered with the U.S. Patent Office. At first, he mixed the syrup himself and sold it exclusively through soda fountains.