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Soon, despite mounting U. S. tariffs, he began and continued to offer Bat'a shoes in the U. S. at a price some 30% below U. S. cost of production. He pushed his cheap, Fordized shoes turned out by cheap Czechoslovak labor not only into the U. S. but into most of the countries of Europe and Asia. In Manhattan R. H. Macy & Co. sell Bat'a shoes, in Cleveland, The May Co. But in Chicago Marshall Field & Co. no longer handle Bat'a shoes, which are now sold there by 28 Bat'a stores...
...supersalesman Tycoon Bat'a had at his disposal a fleet of ten airplanes strategically located. He used to boast to competitors, "The reason why you do not get ahead and I do is because you travel in wheelbarrows, while I travel in air planes." During most of the night before his death, Salesman Bat'a worked over the terms of a shoe contract he hoped to close in Switzerland. Rising at 5 a. m. he fumed at the fog & mist which made a take-off risky. Twice the pilot refused his mas ter's order to start...
What was there to fear? Bat'a, who had already flown more than 20,000 miles, was more than willing to take what seemed to him the smallest of chances. The plane's engine roared. It thundered across the perfectly smooth Bat'a Airfield, be gan to climb, disappeared into the mist...
After Thomas Bat'a's body had been embalmed the first thought of Jan Bat'a was to retrench. The Bat'a newspaper announced that the company had passed its dividend, that for the first time working partners will fail to receive their 10% return on the stock they hold. Under the Bat'a profit sharing system, half of each worker's profits has been automatically invested for him in Bat'a stock, thus making him a working partner...
Among wild rumors in Zlin last week was one that "the Bat'a warehouses are piled from cellar to roof with 25,000,000 pairs of unsaleable shoes." Contrary to his usual custom Tycoon Bat'a was not in the luxurious cabin of his plane when it took off but perched up beside the pilot. A story flew through Prague that the pilot, when found dead, had a bullet through his head. Even if this were true no coroner of Zlin could be expected to confirm a fact so damaging to the House of Bat...