Word: buying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motif of the times, so the colorful figures must go. It is true that the college will become more like an insurance office with its restrictions resulting from the connubial ties but the old levity is taboo. Weekends in New York must give way to shopping trips to buy Oscar Jr. a new kiddie car. Percy Marks will have to leave the field to the more domesticated Gertrude Atherton...
...Ringing door bells" may, in the case of the Fuller Brush salesman, or the automobile salesman, consist actually of ringing door bells and asking people if they will buy; in the case of the salesman of dye stuffs it will consist of calling on the purchasing agents, shop superintendents, and others who are using and buying dye stuffs. In the case of the salesman of suspension bridges it will mean carefully examining the map of the territory for possible business and calling on the county and state commissioners. Much has been said of that indefinable personality which a salesman should...
...investor with $5,000 cash can buy outright about 55 shares of the ''average" stock, since the price of all the issues on the Exchange board averages about $90. Yet this same investor could not purchase even a single share of Manhattan's First National Bank, which last week rose 1,200 points in two days and reached a quotation of $7,300 a share. As George F. Baker, board chairman of First National, is said to hold 20,000 shares (there are only 100,000 outstanding) the 1,200-point rise gave him a paper profit...
Straight from the shoulder was H. R. H.'s next thrust: "I travel a good deal, and sometimes come up against this somewhat sad state of affairs?a British community, many thousands of miles away, anxious to buy British goods but unable to do so because those goods are not suitable or practicable to the locality...
...think we might put personality first. When a lot of men come to sell you something you will be much more likely to buy it from the fellow you look on as a friend. Apart from learning local conditions, try to learn the language, because you will sell the thing better in that way. If the 'boss' of the firm can go out and do business, he will sell his goods very much better than by leaving it to other people...