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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born in David City, Neb., Hallmark's Hall started work at the age of nine selling lemon-extract perfume to help support his mother, worked on through high school selling postcards and helping in a bookstore. By 1912, he was in Kansas City, determined to make a go of...
Overriding all is what Hall wryly calls his "ten-point program'' for sales success: the first nine points are distribution. To get his cards into the stores and keep them there, he set up a sales system that replaced the helter-skelter collection of boxes under the counter...
A waterfowl biologist for the Michigan State Department of Conservation thought he knew: "Elderly hunters are affected seriously by low temperatures. Anderson stood up for a better crack at a flock of ducks, and his legs were undoubtedly numbed and out of control. In balmy October weather, there would have...
Handsome Profits. The one complaint that Aussies have about foreign capital is the lack of opportunity for local participation in the new companies. Only about 40 of the U.S. manufacturing subsidiaries are publicly owned, and of these only eleven have some degree of Australian ownership. But the Aussie who invests...
Actually, De Beers turned out the first synthetic diamonds in 1958, but it kept this a secret while it hustled to get a jump on G.E. on patents. It filed provisional patent applications all over the world, including the U.S. where G.E. had no patent. The Defense Department had placed...