Word: door
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gingerly I opened the door and stepped out; the place was deliberately kept as cold as possible because of the ice. Marty, who is extremely alluring and conscious of it, turned from the two blondes he was squeezing to direct me to a spot on the bleachers where I was to await the checker, who would sign me in for my day's work. While I had been effecting the unnoticed transformation, several hundred more people had arrived. I joined them on the bleachers to wait...
...closed the bedroom door (smash...
Other companies have used the single-policy idea and door-to-door peddling. They have even copied Penn Life's presentation-and have done less well. The company's personnel policy is more difficult to duplicate. As Beyer says: "From the minute we hire a man, he is in our house for the rest of his life-he, his wife, his children, his dreams become our responsibility. There is no firing in this company. A man has to be a thief to be fired...
...Extension. The inspiration for Penn Life came originally from the late Roy Markus, a pharmacist, who in 1939 decided that disability income insurance could be sold profitably door-to-door to small businessmen. He built up a chain of agencies in the Midwest and on the Eastern Seaboard. Beyer joined Markus at 18, and by 23 was earning $340,000 a year as manager of the Minneapolis office...
...very nice sort of guy.) That afternoon, while I was in class, about 400 students picked up tree branches cut from the fallen trees and, like Birnam Wood advancing on Macbeth, dragged them to the tower, where they stacked the limbs in front of the doorway. The doors had already been locked by the campus police. (In the meantime, someone had started a fire in the janitor's closer in the tower which brought seven fire trucks. They put it out with one fire extinguisher.) When the students started banging on his outside door, Hackerman decided to keep cool...