Hardy Empire 1945

  Chapter 218 Girl's New Name

  Time flickered into February.

  The temperature in Los Angeles is kept between 18°C ​​and 12°C. It is suitable for windbreaker suits. Hardy likes this temperature very much. It is more comfortable to sweat than in summer.

  He came to pick him up at the airport today.

  The filming of "Across the World" ended, the crew returned to Los Angeles, and Hardy came to greet him. Of course, the most important thing was to pick up Ava Gardner.

  The crew got off the plane, the director and actors shook hands with Hardy respectfully. Hardy encouraged them with a few words, and finally took Ava into the car and left.

  In the car, Ava hugged Hardy excitedly: "I finally came back, this time I can take a good rest for a while."

  Hadi smiled, "It's up to you to decide."

  The two chatted on the way back, and Ava talked about "the relationship between humans and ghosts is not there."

  "In New York, I watched people and ghosts. That movie was great. Although there were no big scenes, I always felt an emotion lingering in my heart."

   "The theme song is really nice, Hardy, you have created a classic again. In fact, the movie is so hot, it has a lot to do with this song."

   "By the way, has the show ended? What is the box office?" Ava asked.

People and ghosts are not there. Because of the good release momentum, it was released for nearly two months in a row. This situation is not many in later generations, but it is very common in this era. There are intermittent releases for half a year. Play.

   "It's officially over, the data has not been released, but MGM has told me that the total box office is 11.2 million US dollars." Hardy said.

   "Wow~~ so many!"

  Ava exclaimed in surprise.

   "Originally, I was thinking about whether "Across the World" could compete with "Human Ghosts", but now it seems difficult." Ava said.

   "Hehe may not, as long as the announcement is done well, "Across the World" can be a big hit." Hardy said with a smile.

  "Boss, how are you going to promote it?"

   "I arranged a job for you, which is definitely good for the promotion of the film." Hardy said.

   "Ah, I just came back, you are really a capitalist."

  Ava said dissatisfiedly.

   "Listen to what I arranged to make decisions." Then Hardy introduced the ‘Super Draft’ program to Ava. From the national audition to the primary, promotion, finals, etc., an ordinary person walked all the way.

  Just listening to Hardy’s introduction, Ava can feel that this show will definitely be very attractive.

   "I want you to be a judge, in addition to Heidi Ramah, Johnny Fontaine and Gary Grant, I think the scene is enough to hold up." Hardy said.

  More than just being able to support it, this judge lineup can be described as strong.

  Ava Gardner is now the most well-known female singer in the United States. A ‘Scarbro Market’ has become a classic among the classics. Later, another record was released and sold more than 100,000 copies.

  Heidi Rama is the earliest **** actress, and now she has become the hottest actress this year due to the fact that she is not in love with the ghost.

  Johnny Fontaine was originally a well-known American singer. He has been famous for more than ten years, and he is absolutely qualified to be a judge.

  As for Gary Grant, the Oscar actor, no one questioned his qualifications.

   "Okay, I will do it." Ava agreed immediately.

  The judges of the draft are selected, and the rest is left to ABC TV. Now a production team has been formed, and it will be launched in the near future.

  Bill sent someone to secretly find a bottle cap factory, not in Los Angeles, but in the suburbs of Atlanta, and bought it directly, spending more than 10,000 US dollars, and found a few good bottle cap producers, and produced a batch of Coca-Cola bottle caps.

  After the bottle cap is made, the team will be disbanded directly, and they will be warned not to pass on this matter. If it is passed on, they will not be able to run.

  These people didn't know the identity of the employer from beginning to end, and then they disbanded and left. The bottle cap factory was resold and only lost more than two thousand dollars.

This batch of bottle caps were shipped to major cities in the United States and temporarily stored in warehouses. After waiting for about half a month, Bill felt that time was almost up and called Hardy: "Boss, everything is ready, you see when it starts. ?"

   "It will start in three days." Hardy said.

  A few days ago, Hardy and Andy met and specifically told Andy that he was going to pit Coca-Cola, and Andy immediately realized that there is a lot to do.

  Use a batch of secret accounts to short Coca-Cola stocks.

  Because of the prize redemption activity, Coca-Cola's sales during this period are very good, even higher than before, selling 70 to 80 million bottles in just over a month.

  Many people have accumulated a lot of bottle caps in their hands, but very few winners.

Coca-Cola has verbal agreements with grocery stores and small supermarkets. These people sell Coca-Cola and are also responsible for redemption. After they accumulate a batch of bottle caps, they will find large distributors to redeem them, and then the large distributors will settle accounts with Coca-Cola. The money can be exchanged. Deduct from the purchase price.

  In the past few days, many people took their collected bottle caps to the grocery store or supermarket to redeem prizes. Sometimes a grocery store can redeem more than one hundred dollars a day.

Most of the people who originally accumulated bottle caps lacked the Virgin and Gemini bottle caps, but these days, there have been a lot of gangsters who didn’t know where they got the bottle caps and sold them for 30 cents a bottle cap, Virgin and Gemini. As many as you want.

  And it’s not in one place. This is happening in all cities and towns across the United States, and even in some small towns.

   There are countless winners in one time.

A few days later, grocery stores and small supermarkets took bottle caps and went to distributors to exchange them. After all, they paid in advance for the previous money. Distributors did not refuse to come at first. They only thought that Coca-Cola was giving out more rewards for publicity, but later found out. There are more and more exchange merchants, and things are a little abnormal, and they are reported to the Coca-Cola head office.

   Coca-Cola heard the news, immediately realized the seriousness of the matter, and immediately contacted local distributors.

  "Washington, how much bonus did you redeem there?"

  "More than four thousand U.S. dollars have been redeemed."

   "Oklahoma City, how much bonus do you redeem there?"

   "Exchange more than eight thousand U.S. dollars."

   "Philadelphia, how many bonuses did you redeem?"

   "Exchange more than six thousand U.S. dollars."

   "Phoenix,"

  Coca-Cola has more than 50 distributors in the United States. After asking this question, it exchanged more than one million.

The CEO of Coca-Cola only felt that their heads were buzzing. They did not release so many awards at all. They plan to release hundreds of thousands of awards throughout the year. Now it is only over a month, and they have released a total of more than 20,000 to 30,000. Where did they come from? Multi-reward bottle caps.

  Fake~!

  The President of Coca-Cola immediately realized this serious problem.

  "Stop, immediately stop the reward redemption in various places. From now on, the reward redemption activities will be stopped. Distributors in various regions are notified, and distributors can notify distributors in various regions." The President of Coca-Cola hurriedly issued an order.

It is easy for Coca-Cola to notify distributors, but it is very troublesome for distributors to notify those small distributors. These small grocery stores and small supermarkets are scattered all over the United States. Many people come to pick up the goods. It is extremely difficult to notify them all. .

  Now it’s not a posterity. Everyone is in a group. Just send a notification and it will be known throughout the country. Now you can only call to notify, but many distributors simply don’t have the contact information of those small grocery stores.

  How to tell, go from house to house, don’t be kidding, they don’t have that much energy.

  The notice of suspension of exchange was issued, and those small dealers are still exchanging at this moment, and each household has exchanged dozens of hundreds of dollars.

  The president of Coca-Cola immediately notified the chairman, and the chairman also realized the seriousness of the problem, "Investigate clearly, and if someone really cheated, immediately call the police."

  It was not difficult to investigate things. A large number of bottle caps were quickly obtained. Among them, the Gemini and Virgo constellation patterns were very well-made, but after identification, it can still be seen that they are slightly different from the constellation icons produced by Coca-Cola.

  But ordinary people can’t tell at all, they think it’s true.

Call the police.

  This matter is very involved, and the FBI intervened in the investigation.

Through the FBI investigation, it was found that these bottle caps were sold by local gangsters. The FBI caught many gangsters for interrogation, but these gangsters knew very little, but someone found them and asked them if they would like to do this business, and then they Buy it for 20 cents per cap.

  Finally, the FBI found that there were thousands of punks involved, but it was impossible to find out who they were from.

  The clue is broken here.

  This is not the 21st century. With so many high-tech methods, Bill made at least 5 step faults at Hardy’s orders.

After all, the paper couldn't contain the fire. The news of the omissions in the Coca-Cola prize redemption event was quickly learned by the media. Within a day, the major newspapers reported the matter.

New York Times:

  "Coca-Cola's reward redemption activity has ceased, and a large number of counterfeit bottle caps have appeared. The amount of rewards far exceeds the amount issued by Coca-Cola. The Coca-Cola Company has lost more than one million yuan. It has reported to the police and the police are fully investigating counterfeiters."

Global Times:

"In the Coca-Cola award redemption incident, the Global Times interviewed many Coca-Cola distributors. Many grocery store owners and small supermarket owners said that Coca-Cola promised to let them pay for the awards. Now they suddenly stopped. Each of them has cashed out dozens of dollars. , They asked Coca-Cola to say something, but now Coca-Cola has nothing to say."

  "The reporter simply estimated that there are tens of thousands of dealers in the United States, and the funds may reach several million US dollars. Is this loss Coca-Cola ready to be borne by the dealers? Wait for Coca-Cola to give a reasonable statement."

New York Times:

  "The Coca-Cola Company urgently held a shareholders meeting and decided to suspend the current president's position. The first thing the new president has to do after he takes office is to resolve the bottle cap redemption incident. I don't know if it will be handled properly."

  "The bottle cap incident had a great impact on Coca-Cola’s sales, and sales fell sharply. At the same time, it had an extremely bad impact on Coca-Cola’s reputation. Affected by this, Coca-Cola’s stock price fell sharply, with a drop of 26% yesterday."

  Because of this incident, as the first Pepsi to start the prize redemption activity, a reporter also conducted an interview.

  Pepsi-Cola Chairman and President Walter Mack said, “Pepsi-Cola will strictly prevent this from happening and has changed the Pepsi-Cola reward mechanism. In order not to cause possible problems for merchants, except for another bottle, the reward code is used to redeem it.”

  "How to redeem the award code?" the reporter asked.

"Pepsi-Cola will cancel the small prize and replace it with a grand prize, ranging from 5 yuan, 10 yuan, 20 yuan, and 100 yuan. Each bottle cap has an independent redemption code and an anti-counterfeiting code. In a random lottery, the winning numbers will be announced in the newspapers. The winners can mail the bottle caps to PepsiCo. PepsiCo will send a check to the winners after confirming that they are correct."

The problem on Pepsi’s side has been solved, but Coca-Cola’s side is still a mess. Many customers who have bottle caps in their hands cannot claim the prizes. These bottle caps have spent money. Not only did they not make money, they lost money. These people are naturally right. Coca-Cola gives birth to opinions.

  And those dealers have greater opinions.

  They posted tens of hundreds of dollars, and now Coca-Cola has nothing to say, which makes many dealers very annoyed. During this period, many stores and supermarkets temporarily stopped Coca-Cola’s purchase.

Those distributors also had a hard time talking. Originally, Coca-Cola agreed with them to pay the reward bonus and then deduct it from the purchase price. But now each distributor has thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars worth of reward bottle caps, piled up full of one. The warehouse, but Coca-Cola doesn't need it.

  Who will bear this loss? !

  The Coca-Cola Company is now in a state of anxiety and will not honor it. Then the distribution channels may collapse in the future, and the cost of establishing new sales channels is still not small.

  Pay,

  The bonuses in the hands of dealers are as much as two or three million, which is also unbearable for Coca-Cola.

  The last president was to preserve his credibility. He expressed on the board of directors that he hoped that the board of directors would agree to pay and deal with this matter, but the board of directors refused, so the get out of class was dismissed and a new president came up.

  The new president naturally maintains the resolutions of the board of directors and prepares to fall back on accounts.

  But I couldn’t blatantly directly say that I was not responsible, so I used the word tactics, and never explained how to deal with it.

  Because of Coca-Cola’s irresponsible attitude, Coca-Cola’s credibility has seriously declined, and the stock has once again collapsed.

  Coca-Cola is still not coming out in the quagmire, Hardy is no longer paying attention to him, turning around to start the "Super Idol" audition show.

   February 14.

Valentine's Day.

On this day, the Global Times published a blockbuster news, "ABC TV will host a super idol talent show. No matter which country you are from, there is no limit to men and women, aged 12 to 28, as long as you come to Los Angeles, the city of angels, To participate in this talent show hosted by ABC TV."

"If you have a wonderful singing voice, if you have an impressive appearance, don't suppress your talents. As long as you enter the finals, you may get the HD record company's management contract and release your personal record. If you win the championship, the company will Create a classic record for her."

   "Come to participate in the audition, here is your starting point on your journey to the stars!"

  Posted at the back of the sea election registration location and registration method, as well as the pre-event rules and so on.

  Following news from ABC TV, the four mentors Qi Qi appeared on TV, Ava Gardner, Heidi Ramah, Johnny Fontin and Gary Grant, these four superstars will help the players.

  The news spread quickly, and after many people watched it, the hearts of the stars who yearn for the stars are ready to move.

  In a simple apartment in Los Angeles, the furniture only has a table and a bed, and a few bottles of simple cosmetics are placed on the table. Most of the lipstick has been used up, and only the roots are left.

  The girl only wore underwear, showing a perfect figure, but at this moment she was looking at it seriously with a few newspapers.

   "Super idol audition, anyone can participate, from 12 to 28 years old, my age is fine, can you sing?"

  Girls don't have much confidence in their singing, but look at the figure in the mirror, the impressive looks should be counted.

She came to Hollywood more than a year ago and got a half-year contract from 20th Century Fox. She was only paid $50 a week, but she was very happy because she felt that she had the possibility of becoming a big star, but in the days that followed, she only got one. Very small supporting role.

After half a year, she failed to renew her contract with the film company. The following days she has been wandering in Hollywood, hoping to find an opportunity. A photographer came to her a few days ago and said that if she was willing to take a group of fruit photos, she could give her 50%. Dollar.

  She was moved ~www.readwn.com~Because she has no money, she will not be able to pay the rent next month, but she is unwilling to leave and does not want to live her previous life.

  Seeing the draft report in the newspaper today, the girl feels that her chance has come again. No matter what, she has to try it out, in case it succeeds.

  She combed her dark blonde hair, put on the best outfit in the cabinet, and went out to the registration location.

  She doesn’t have much money, and it’s too expensive to take a taxi. Fortunately, there are only a few miles between the registration location and her station, so she can walk over.

  The girl had longing in her heart, and she walked a little bit windy, and she didn't feel tired at all after walking for a few miles. When she came to the registration point, there was already a long line in front of her.

  Receive a form, which requires information such as name, age, mailing address, phone number, etc., and also fill in what you are good at and where are your advantages.

  The girl picked up the pen and just wanted to write her name, but suddenly she stopped. She wanted to change. At this moment, she decided to give up her previous name.

   then signed his new name.

Marilyn Monroe.

  (End of this chapter)