Word: carloading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...character from Cervantes is illiterate Juan March, "richest man in Spain." He rolled up to the yellow stucco Rock Hotel at Gibraltar last week with his jailer and a carload of friends, thumbed his nose at the Government of Spain and went to bed. Sallow Castilians slapped their thighs and swore that Por Dios, Juan had done it again...
...They roused him with flowers, they roused him with telegrams, bottles of wine, boxes of cigars (Chancellor Hitler does not smoke, drinks nothing stronger than beer), Easter eggs, Westphalian hams, lumps of sugar for his police dogs. Back in the Chancellery in Berlin the presents came in by the carload. Sofa cushions were the most popular, there were over 1,000 of them; also clocks, books, pictures, rugs, clothes, a birthday cake weighing 170 lb., dogs, canaries, parrots, and a saddle horse (Chancellor Hitler does not ride). Most appealing was a box of pretzel mice from the children of Hameln...
Alice Brydon Ritchie, widow of Harold F. ("Carload") Ritchie, famed Toronto 'salesman who distributed Eno's Fruit Salt, Glover's Mange Medicine, Rubberset Brushes, Tanglefoot Fly Paper. Fralinger's Salt Water Taffy, Scott's Emulsion, Pompeian Cream all over the world (TIME, March 6), was elected president of her late husband's distributing firm, Harold F. Ritchie...
...Mange Cure and Fralinger's Salt Water Taffy have been broadcast over six continents. His, too, the control of such famed products as Eno's Fruit Salt, Scott's Emulsion, Pompeian beauty cream. And his nom de guerre, immortal in the annals of super-salesmanship, was "Carload Ritchie...
...less time at home than he did traveling. An air trip around South America to look at his agencies was a routine matter; he once estimated he traveled 125,000 mi. a year. All his traveling was by automobile or plane; trains ran on too regular a schedule for Carload Ritchie. Last autumn he took a trip to the Pacific Coast, insisted on calling on wholesalers in person, sold four carloads of Eno's before he was through. Warmhearted, he would give away anything his friends admired, used to keep 20 or 30 men working till late...