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Word: distributor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...certain rural areas of 21 states is a coin-operated vending machine that dispenses live bait to fishermen, and the force behind it is a supersalesman from Des Moines who found God in a federal penitentiary. The machine is called Vend-A-Bait, and, as one Texas distributor put it, "It's one great moneymakin' sucker." So, for that matter, is Vend-A-Bait Mogul Glenn McClintic; he drives a car longer than most people's memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Des Moines: Worms for Sale | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...dynamic salesman, as McClintic is the first to add. Listen to the pitch: "You go out and find the proper distributor, a guy who knows the good fishing places. O.K., you say, show me some areas where you would like a 24- hr. bait house, because that's all it is really, a bait house. You sell it for $3,800. You take $300 down to assure yourself you have the order. You offer financing for $3,500. Payments of $120 a month to $150. This means Vend-A-Bait will cost the customer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Des Moines: Worms for Sale | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...became a born-again Christian and began attending weekly Bible study classes. He never gave up his dream. As he writes in his autobiography, "I would delight in being able to resurrect the DeLorean car." He and a group of investors including Marvin Katz, an Ohio-based auto-parts distributor, hope to start a modest venture that would turn out 250 cars annually, possibly in Columbus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Roadblock for a Dreamer | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...PROPOSED REFERENDUM, sponsored by a local women's group and certified by the city elections commission, defines pornography as "the graphic sexually explicit subordination of women through pictures or words." If approved, the ordinance would allow victims--loosely defined--to seek civil damages against the maker, seller or distributor of anything deemed sexually dehumanizing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: People's Choice | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

...petition, which has already been signed and verified by the Cambridge Election Commission, defines pornography as the "the graphic sexually explicit subordination of women through pictures or words." The ordinance, sponsored by the Women's Alliance Against Pornography, would permit a victim to seek civil damages against the maker, distributor, seller or distributor of anything deemed sexually dehumanizing...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: City Blocks Porn Referendum | 9/18/1985 | See Source »

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