Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iowa City, Iowa...
Charlie sat down and wrote a letter to big-fisted, fast-talking Allan B. Kline, wealthy Iowa hog breeder who had expected to become Tom Dewey's Secretary of Agriculture and whose position as Farm Bureau president made him leader of more than 1,400,000 of the richest, most influential U.S. farming families. It was only fair, the Secretary told Kline, that the federation let the Department of Agriculture explain its Brannan Plan before the delegates tried to pass judgment...
...thinks too many of them wander aimlessly in & out of stores, just making calls and taking orders. Cummings thought that salesmen should work harder to expand a grocer's business, and cited an example to show that it could be done. In a Jack Sprat store in Ames, Iowa, he gave a customer a taste of a can of peas, succeeded in selling her an entire case instead of only one can. He persuaded a grocer on Manhattan's Third Avenue to keep a list of daily "specials" next to the telephone so that clerks taking orders...
...Chase. In Iowa, investigation showed why an Anamosa-Clinton branch line freight train had been consistently running late: its crew had taken to stopping in the country to pot rabbits and quail...
Prospect. In Clinton, Iowa, the cop who arrested two salesmen for speeding was persuaded to buy $4.05 worth of Fuller brushes...