Word: admen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have largely been replaced by the Venezuelans they trained). In the cities the American musiús (Venezuelan slang for any foreigner, from monsieur) range from topflight oil-company executives and managers of U.S.-owned factories or assembly plants (cars, tires, chemicals, etc.) through a wide spectrum of salesmen, admen and promoters to some all-purpose operators that the others call "export bums." U.S. and other foreign companies have contributed heavily to Caracas' great private building boom, but the government splurge of public works is more than twice as big. The Centre Simon Bolivar, a complex of twin...
Roberts, who was backed up by testimony from Star executives and outside admen, testified that the combination ad rate, by which advertisers are forced to take space in both the Star and Times, and cannot buy an ad in one alone, was already in force when he came to the Star in 1909. Actually, said he, both the papers are published as two editions of the same daily. The Star and Times operate out of the same plant and use the same mechanical staffs. It is perfectly reasonable, he suggested, that ad contracts with the papers should cover their round...
Last week in Kansas City's U.S. District Court, the Government finished putting on the stand 90 witnesses, including admen, former Star staffers, local advertisers and other publishers, to try to prove that the Star had been "monopolizing interstate trade and commerce in the dissemination of news and advertising...
Wooden Expression. Most admen agree that the new look in announcers was started by Ed Sullivan of Toast of the Town. Despite his wooden expression and lack of announcer's glibness, Sullivan does the sort of job that makes any sponsor swoon with joy. He spends much of his offscreen time racing around the nation on the dedicated work of selling Lincolns and Mercurys. He addresses regional meetings of auto dealers ("I explain that we're all part of a team'') and will show up in Portland. Ore., for its Rose Festival or Memphis...
...never seems to be in a hurry. From his 30-ft.-square office in Detroit's General Motors Building, he runs G.M.'s worldwide empire with an informality that is almost offhand. His long workdays (8 a.m. to 6 or 7 p.m.) are crammed with visits from admen, engineers, lawyers, production men and especially G.M. dealers, to whom his door is always open. Several times a day he may drop in on G.M.'s styling section to see how the latest dream cars are coming along...