Hardy Empire 1945

Chapter 218 The girl's new name

Time flies into February.

The temperature in Los Angeles is maintained between 18 degrees and 12 degrees, which is suitable for wearing a windbreaker and a suit. Hardy likes this temperature very much, and it is much more comfortable than sweating in summer.

He came to the airport to pick him up today.

After the filming of Across the World, 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 a few words, and finally took Ava into the car and left.

Arriving in the car, Ava hugged Hardy excitedly: I'm finally back, I can rest for a while this time.

Hardy smiled, It's all up to you.

On the way back, the two chatted, and Ava talked about the ghosts are over.

I watched Ghostly Love in New York. That movie was awesome. Although it didn't have a big scene, I always felt an emotion lingering in my heart.

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

By the way, is the show over yet, and what is the box office? Ava asked.

Because of the good momentum of release, it has been released for nearly two months in a row. This situation is rare in later generations, but it is very common in this era, and there are intermittent releases for half a year. As long as there is a box office theater line, I am willing play.

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

Wow~~ so much!

Ava exclaimed in surprise.

Originally, I was thinking about whether 'Across the World' could compete with 'The Love of Humans and Ghosts', but now it seems difficult. Ava said.

Hehe, not necessarily, as long as Xuanfa does a good job, Across the World can be a big hit. Hardy said with a smile.

Boss, how are you going to promote it?

I have 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 angrily.

Listen to what I have arranged to make a decision. Then Hardy introduced Ava to the Super Draft program, from the national audition to the primary, promotion, finals, etc., an ordinary person went all the way.

Just listening to Hardy's introduction, Ava knew the show was going to be very engaging.

I want you to be a judge, plus Heidi Rama, Johnny Fangting and Cary Grant, I think the scene is enough to hold up. Hardy said.

More than being able to hold up, this lineup of judges can be described as tough.

Ava Gardner is now the most well-known female singer in the United States. The song Scarborough Fair has become a classic among classics. Later, a record was released that sold hundreds of thousands of copies.

Heidi Rama is the earliest sexy actress, and now she has become the hottest actress this year with the help of ghosts.

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

As for Cary Grant, Oscar winner, no one questioned his qualifications.

Okay, I'll do it. Ava agreed immediately.

The judges of the draft have been selected, and the rest will be left to ABC TV. The production team has now been formed and 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.

After the bottle caps are made, the team is immediately disbanded, and they are warned not to spread the matter, and if it is spread, they will not be able to escape.

And these people did not know the identity of the employer from beginning to end, and then disbanded and left, and the bottle cap factory was sold and only lost more than 2,000 US dollars.

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

Start in three days. Hardy said.

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

Enable a batch of secret accounts to short Coca-Cola stock.

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

Many people have accumulated a lot of bottle caps, but very few redeemers.

Coca-Cola has verbal agreements with grocery stores and small supermarkets. These people sell Coca-Cola and are also responsible for redeeming prizes. After they have accumulated a batch of bottle caps, they will find a large distributor to pay, and then the large distributor will settle accounts with Coca-Cola. The exchanged money can be deducted from the payment.

However, in the past two days, many people took the bottle caps they had collected to grocery stores and supermarkets to redeem prizes. Sometimes a grocery store could redeem more than one hundred dollars a day.

Most of the people who originally accumulated bottle caps lacked Virgin and Gemini bottle caps, but these days suddenly there are many small gangsters who don't know where they got bottle caps for takeout, 30 cents a bottle cap, Virgin and Gemini As many as you want.

And not in one place, this happens in cities big and small across the United States, and even in some small towns.

Countless winners appeared at one time.

A few days later, grocery stores and small supermarkets took the bottle caps to find distributors to exchange them. After all, they paid the money in advance. The distributors refused to come at first, thinking that Coca-Cola had increased the rewards for publicity, but later found out There are more and more merchants redeeming, and things are a little abnormal, and report to the Coca-Cola head office.

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

Washington, how much money did you exchange over there?

More than four thousand dollars have been exchanged.

Oklahoma City, how much money did you exchange?

Exchange out more than eight thousand dollars.

Philadelphia, how many bonuses did you exchange?

Exchange out more than six thousand dollars.

Phoenix,

Coca-Cola has more than 50 distributors in the United States. After asking around, it turned out more than one million.

The president of Coca-Cola only felt his head buzzing. They didn't release so many awards at all. They planned to release hundreds of thousands of awards throughout the year. Now it has only been more than a month, and a total of more than 20,000 to 30,000 copies have been released. Where did it come from? Multi-reward bottle caps.

Fake~!

The president of Coca-Cola was immediately aware of the serious problem.

Stop, immediately stop the redemption of prizes in various places. From now on, the redemption activities will be stopped, and the distributors will be notified, so that the distributors will notify the distributors. The president of Coca-Cola quickly 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, and many people come to pick up the goods. It is extremely difficult to notify all of them. .

Now is not the future, everyone is in a group, and the whole country will know if you send a notice. Now you can only call to notify, but many distributors do not have the contact information of those grocery stores and small supermarkets.

How to notify, go door to door, don't joke, they don't have that much energy.

The notice of suspension of redemption was sent out, and those small dealers were still redempting at the moment, and every household exchanged dozens or hundreds of dollars.

The president of Coca-Cola immediately notified the chairman, and the chairman also realized the seriousness of the problem, The investigation is clear, and if someone really cheats, call the police immediately.

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

But ordinary people can't tell the difference at all, they think it's true.

Call the police.

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

Through the FBI investigation, it was found that these bottle caps were sold by local gangsters. The FBI arrested a lot of 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 Get it for 20 cents a cap.

In the end, the FBI found that there were thousands of gangsters involved, but it was impossible to find out who their parents were.

The thread ends here.

Now is not the 21st century, there are so many high-tech means, Bill made at least 5 ladder faults under Hardy's order.

After all, the paper could not contain the fire, and the news of the flaws in the Coca-Cola redemption event was quickly known by the media, and within a day, major newspapers reported the incident.

New York Times:

The Coca-Cola award redemption activity has stopped, and a large number of counterfeit bottle caps have appeared. The amount of the award is far more than the amount issued by Coca-Cola. The Coca-Cola Company lost more than one million. The police have been reported to the police, and the police are making every effort to investigate the counterfeiters.

Global Times:

The Coca-Cola award redemption event, the Global Times interviewed many Coca-Cola distributors. Many grocery store owners and small supermarket owners said that Coca-Cola promised them to pay the award on their behalf, but now it suddenly stopped, and each of them cashed out dozens or hundreds of dollars. , they asked Coca-Cola to say something, and now Coca-Cola has not said anything.

The reporter made a simple estimate. There are tens of thousands of dealers in the United States, and the capital may reach several million dollars. Is Coca-Cola going to let the dealers bear this loss? Waiting for Coca-Cola to give a reasonable statement.

New York Times:

The Coca-Cola Company held an emergency shareholders meeting and decided to suspend the current position of president. The first thing after the new president took office was to solve the bottle cap redemption incident. I don't know if it will be handled properly.

The bottle cap incident has had a great impact on the sales of Coca-Cola, with a sharp drop in sales and 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-Cola to start redemption activities, some reporters also interviewed.

Walter Mack, chairman and president of PepsiCo, said, PepsiCo will strictly prevent this from happening, and has changed the PepsiCo prize redemption mechanism. In order not to cause possible problems for merchants, except for another bottle, the redemption code is used to redeem the prize.

How to redeem the prize code? the reporter asked.

Pepsi Cola will cancel the small prize and replace it with a big prize, ranging from 5 yuan, 10 yuan, 20 yuan, and 100 yuan. Each bottle cap has an independent redemption code and an anti-counterfeiting sign code. Every once in a while, the company will carry out In the random draw, the winning number will be announced in the newspaper, and the winner can mail the bottle cap to PepsiCo, and PepsiCo will mail a check to the winner after confirming that it is 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 redeem the prize. These bottle caps cost money, not only did they not make money, but they lost money. Naturally, these people are right Coca-Cola gave birth to opinions.

And those dealers have a bigger opinion.

They put tens or hundreds of dollars in, and now Coca-Cola has nothing to say, which makes many distributors very annoyed. During this time, many stores and supermarkets temporarily stopped the purchase of Coca-Cola.

Those distributors are also suffering. Originally, Coca-Cola agreed with them that they would pay the bonus and then deduct it from the purchase price, but now each distributor has thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars of bonus caps, which are full of them. In the warehouse, Coca-Cola is no more.

Who will bear this loss? !

The Coca-Cola Company is now in a state of anxiety, and if it does not pay, then the distribution channels in the future may collapse, and it will still cost a lot to establish new sales channels.

pay,

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

In order to preserve his credibility, the last president expressed his hope on the board of directors that he would agree to pay and deal with the matter, but was rejected by the board of directors, so he was dismissed from the get out of class and a new president came in.

The new president naturally upholds the resolution of the board of directors and prepares to default.

But he couldn't blatantly say that he was irresponsible, so he used a tug of war, and never explained how to deal with it.

Also because of Coca-Cola's irresponsible attitude, Coca-Cola's reputation suffered a serious decline, and the stock collapsed again.

Coca-Cola is still in the quagmire and has not come out. Hardy has stopped paying attention to him, and turned his head to start the Super Idol talent show.

February 14.

Valentine's Day.

The Global Times released a heavy news today, ABC TV will hold a super idol talent show, no matter which country you are from, no restrictions on male or female, between the ages of 12 and 28, as long as you come to Los Angeles, the city of angels, To be able to participate in this talent show on ABC TV.

If you have a wonderful singing voice, if you have an impressive face, don't suppress your talent. As long as you enter the finals, you may get a brokerage contract with the HD record company and release a personal record. If you win the championship, the company will even more. Create a classic record for her.

Come and participate in the audition, this is the starting point for you to embark on a bright star journey!

The location and method of registration for the audition will be posted later, as well as the rules of the previous competition.

Immediately after ABC TV also reported the news, the four mentors Qiqi appeared on TV, Ava Gardner, Heidi Rama, Johnny Fangting and Cary Grant, these four superstars will help the players.

The news spread quickly, and many people were eager to see the stars.

In a humble apartment in Los Angeles, the furniture is only a table and a bed. There are several bottles of simple cosmetics on the table. One of the lipsticks has been used for more than half, and only the roots are left.

The girl was only wearing underwear, showing her perfect figure, but at the moment she was holding a few newspapers and looking at it seriously.

Super idol draft, anyone can participate, it's 12 to 28 years old, my age is okay, can I sing?

The girl doesn't have much confidence in her singing voice, but looking at the figure in the mirror, the impressive appearance should be counted.

She came to Hollywood more than a year ago and got a half-year contract with 20th Century Fox, with a weekly salary of only $50, but she was very happy because she felt that she had the possibility to become a big star, but in the following days, she only got one. A very small supporting role.

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

She was moved,

Because she has no money, she will not be able to pay the rent for the next month, but she is not willing to leave and does not want to live the same life as before.

When I saw the draft report in the newspaper today, the girl felt that her chance had come again. No matter what, she had to give it a try, in case she succeeded.

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

She didn't have much money, and it was too expensive to take a taxi, but she could walk just a few miles from where she was registered and where she lived.

With longing in her heart, the girl walked a little windy. 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 queue in front of her, and the girl hurried over to line up.

You get a form, which requires you to fill in your name, age, mailing address, phone number and other information, as well as what you are good at and where are your advantages.

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

Then he signed his new name.

Marilyn Monroe.