Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the industrial recruiter is in a sense the aggressor, the Senior's role is hardly a passive one. The employer's market for apprentices is wide and large, and he comes perhaps to select only one or two men from Harvard. Opportunities from the large corporations are therefore placed on a highly competitive basis and the Senior who compete for an offer must make fully as aggressive and convincing an approach to the recruiter as he would make to any other employer. In this type of employment a Senior subjects himself to the keenest possible competition and his chances...
...press agent's release from Dictograph Silent Radio Company began thus: "Tomorrow's radio has arrived and is announced today. It is the first silent radio ever introduced on the market as such...
...wreckage Mr. Catchings left behind him in Goldman Sachs was appalling. Market value of Goldman Sachs Trading shriveled from $500,000,000 to less than $10,000,000. Funnyman Eddie Cantor, who lost a sizable fortune in the stock, made the name of Goldman Sachs a sure-fire gag from coast to coast. Law suits received so much publicity that Wall Street pranksters used to call up Goldman Sachs, ask for the "litigation" department...
...hospitalized behind the lines after the Argonne offensive with a hole in his neck and a piece of shrapnel in his lung, Sergeant DeWitt Wallace of the 35th U. S.. Infantry perfected his plans for a magazine of condensed reprints culled from all the publications on the market. The tremendous success of this notion of a wounded soldier in 1918 was made manifest this week by a unique and thoroughgoing account of Reader's Digest published in FORTUNE...
Question No. 1: What is a stockyard? Answer: A stockyard is a public market place strategically located as to source of supply of all classes of livestock...