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Word: distributor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salesman and assistant branch manager for. the Manufacturers Life Insurance Co., 4) a salesman-distributor-stockholder in a gift-package company, 5) a successful author (Otto Graham, T Quarterback), and 6) one of the busiest and most civic-minded speechmakers in the Cleveland area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All-Round Otto | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

...more than one producer alone can afford. Thus a distiller estimated that he would have to employ a minimum of 75 salesmen and invest $500,000 to $1,000,000 to service the more than 32,000 liquor licensees in metropolitan New York alone, a job that an independent distributor was already doing for him much more cheaply. Nevertheless, on a few big ticket items, such as automobiles, big savings can be made by bypassing the jobber and wholesaler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISTRIBUTION: How Can Its Costs Be Cut? | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

Died. Joseph Burstyn, 53. U.S. importer-distributor of foreign films (Open City, Paisan, The Bicycle Thief), who fought a 1951 New York State ban on The Miracle and last year won a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision reversing it; of a coronary thrombosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 7, 1953 | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

Occupants of the Jaguar stalled on a lonely Yorkshire road were grateful to the wiry, gray-haired farmer who had quickly repaired their broken distributor. Their thanks turned to amazement when they recognized the impromptu mechanic as England's foremost philosopher of art. For one of the paradoxes about Sir Herbert Read is his combination of a vast knowledge of practical things and the intellectual aloofness of the creative artist...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: "A Very Parfit Gentle Knight" | 11/19/1953 | See Source »

...known nothing about the killing, and Hall, with an alien twist of chivalry, backed her up. But Mrs. Heady's fingerprints were plastered all over a special-delivery ransom note sent the afternoon of the kidnaping to Bobby's father, Robert C. Greenlease, a General Motors distributor in Kansas City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Man with Soft Hands | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

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