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- ▶ 1:04:58 David Rosenthal And then a couple of years later in 1919, a local banker named Ernest Woodruff puts together an investor syndicate and basically stages a takeover of the company and buys out the family members for twenty five million dollars.
- ▶ 1:05:32 Ben Gilbert And it was a complicated little period, because some of the kids did want to have this happen, other ones didn't want to have it happen, they're sort of family infighting, but ultimately, after a few years, Ernest Woodruff and his…
- ▶ 1:06:05 Ben Gilbert It had been sort of this cool secret before, but as collateral for the loan that Woodruff took out to complete this transaction, they wrote down the formula and placed it in a vault at the Guarantee Bank of New York.
- ▶ 1:08:22 David Rosenthal So, Ernest, when he takes over, he's a banker.
- ▶ 1:08:41 David Rosenthal Ernest really doesn't like this perpetual contract thing with the parent bottlers.
- ▶ 1:08:55 David Rosenthal Ernest is frustrated.
- ▶ 1:09:16 David Rosenthal And Ernest barely approves of this wayward son, Robert.
- ▶ 1:11:01 David Rosenthal So the board of Coke makes Ernest consider his son.
- ▶ 1:11:07 David Rosenthal Ernest finally says, all right, fine.
- ▶ 1:11:39 David Rosenthal Ernest is frustrated enough.