Originally Posted by
buzzpat
As long as DAL HQ is in Atlanta, it'll be Coke.
Delta's early growth was largely funded by "Coca-Cola money". There's an old story about some guy who stood up at the annual stockholders' meeting in Monroe, Louisiana, and suggested that it be held in New York the following year. Mentioned that he had proxies for nearly a hundred thousand shares. Monroe Coke tycoon B.W. Biedenharn responded that he held no proxies, just his own quarter-million shares, and that next year's meeting would be right where it always was.
