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...when True Story (priced at 15?) found its sales slipping in competition with 10? magazines, distributors were offered bonuses for keeping up their sales quotas. As the bonuses were scaled it was made profitable for distributors to "eat" copies-i.e., to destroy unsold copies instead of returning them, since the bonus was big enough to leave something over after a distributor had paid for the copies he destroyed. Because the MacFadden account was a profitable one, the distributors "ate" copies and liked...
...selling airplanes, found he was a little ahead of his time. He switched to a two-by-four used-car agency, soon made the happy discovery that there was nothing like the automobile business for a supersalesman in the '205. By 1929 he was Chrysler's distributor for its new De Soto in all of northern California...
...Nazi is another Monterrey distributor that he cannot get a visitor's permit to the U. S. But he represents, among others, Bethlehem Steel...
...geology as a perch from which to leap to visions of the New Order. His discourses are exceedingly competent, and they provide the student with a satisfying knowledge of one more feature of the world about him. If all survey courses fitted the needs of both concentrator and distributor as does this one, this talk of Area Courses would be much less necessary...
Every big distributor in pictures turned down Nanook of the North-it had no love interest, no box-office names-until Trader Revillon talked Pathe into releasing it. A smash hit, Nanook was the end of Flaherty's career as an explorer. He went to the remote Samoan island of Savaii to produce Moana, to a rugged island off the coast of Ireland to make Man of Aran, to the native state of Mysore, India to film Elephant...