Word: enlist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bring the dying art of salesmanship back to its robust prewar vigor, many a company thinks that the trick is to enlist the aid of its salesmen's wives. International Cellucotton Products Co. puts out a 48-page booklet on how a wife can help her salesman husband get ahead ("We shall have an unbeatable-a triumphant three-way partnership: wife, husband, company"). Others use such incentives as bonus vacation trips for entire families, in hopes that wives will keep their husbands working their darndest to win them. Last week the Clary Multiplier Corp., of San Gabriel, Calif., announced...
...senior ROTC members who refused to sign, around 12 have indicated intentions to enlist for a two year period as privates in the Air Force...
...program. This means that a subscriber who is ill or injured away from home has only a 20% chance of landing in a hospital whose blood bank will honor his guarantee of four free pints. Outside the state, his chances are even less. The organizers hope to enlist more member banks in New York State and to work out exchange agreements with similar doctor-sponsored setups in such states as Florida, Texas and California...
...receives from Moscow." Washington called the Soviet maneuver a "sheer façade"; Bonn termed it "a booby trap." Yet for all its patent falseness, the Soviet move was not to be quipped away. In a week when pique and punctilio made a tragicomic opera of Western efforts to enlist West German arms (see below), the Kremlin was boldly reaching out on three fronts-military, diplomatic and psychological...
Members of the Air Force ROTC here began sending out letters yesterday to similar units throughout the country to enlist support for the administrative cadets scheduled to lose their promised commissions...