Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After such training the men are assigned to local or district sales offices, from which they cover a specific territory as salesmen. Their customers will include jobbers and wholesale dealers, retail store buyers, office executives, or purchasing agents...
...front cover) If one man were put in charge of all U. S. railroads, he would quickly become aware of the following outlines of his problem...
...railroad problem during Depression and thus far in Recovery has been to coax enough net operating income out of greatly diminished gross receipts to cover almost inflexible fixed charges on a funded debt which in December 1934 stood at $10,560,000,000. In 1929 the railroads had gross receipts of some $7,000,000,000. That income has shrunk by nearly $3,000,000,000. If the roads were spending as much money on operations as they spent in 1929, receiverships would now be almost universal. They have, however, made extraordinary reductions in operating expenses. In 1934 maintenance charges...
...buying clothes and automobiles and giving her chaperones the slip. And she had a strong sense of curiosity. "I learned most of what has been helpful . . . from peeking or from bolder observations." When she was bereft of rouge and lipstick she learned how to get color by licking the cover of a Baedeker. And when she discovered that her family did not want her to marry a certain Italian prince she let herself be bought off with a Mercedes...