at any rate, he relented and gave thomas and whitehead exclusive rights to bottle and sell coca-colae u.s.. actually, there was a couple states they couldn't, but, basically, they got the entire united states to do it. they signed the contract, allegedly for a dollar, supposedly which he never collected. that's the legend. evidently, they were so broke they wired home for money just to get the train back for the last time. when they came back, this was july, they had to enlist one to help get a little more money to buy the equipment, tables, washing gear, that stuff, and in three months, they set up a facility, and they bottled it and distributed it, and within a year they were just cooking. they determined between themselves what they'd do is they would become parent bottlers, and they would divide the united states into territories, so this was would be a franchise system. itas a parent bottler, sell a franchise to someone, in tennessee, dayton, ohio, wherever, people were just knocking at the door to get this, and then he'd get profits from the operations, but the killer was he ha