Beginning with one employee, a mule named âBirdâ and a foot-powered bottling machine, Crawford Johnson Sr. purchased the exclusive franchise rights, in 1902, to bottle and distribute Coca-Cola in Birmingham, Alabama. Today, Coca-Cola Bottling Company UNITED, Inc. produces and distributes over 750 Coca-Cola products across 7 states. The company employs over 5,700 people in 35 sales centers and 4 production facilities.
The ships of today dwarf most of the biggest warships built during the Second World War. In terms of tonnage, even the 72,000 ton Yamato class battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy â the largest warship of World War 2 â falls well short of the 100,000 ton aircraft carriers which have become the norm in the US Navy.
In 1911 when it was built, the Titanic was the largest ship in the world, but at 883ft in length and 46,000 tonnes it is dwarfed by many ships that came after it. The Supercarâ¦riers of the United States Navy are the largest military ships in the world, about 1,100 feet in length and 95,000 tonnes.