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George Galiowhur's peacetime business was founded on the fact that people get sunburned-his Skol outsold all other anti-burn lotions. His war business (except for Sunstill) is founded upon two other equally factual premises: 1) people get bitten by insects; 2) fabrics are attacked by mildew, mold...
...mail-order experts deserved a respectful ear. In the 1930s they outwitted, outsold and outearned most U.S. merchants. While Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward boosted combined sales from 1930's $600,000,000 to 1940's $1,219,000,000, department-store volume slumped 9%. While mail-order profits jumped sky-high many a department store plopped into receivership...
...Even so, the future of electricity in the Northwest clearly belonged to the Bonneville Power Administration. But McKee had a substitute line of goods: gas. He plugged gas for home heating, water heating, cooking and refrigeration. His gas volume last year hit a ten-year peak; his appliance salesmen outsold Bonneville power appliance salesmen. But for real profits, he needed more income from gas by-products as well (such as briquets, lampblack, benzol, road-surfacing tar). So now he is building the new by-products plant, hopes to boost by-products sales from 25% to 33-50% of gas sales...
...families a living in South America and in doing so have performed real services to their communities and countries. To put the matter bluntly, the Germans have had the guts to do many things which we have not had the guts to do, and as a result have badly outsold us in our own back yard. Germans, as a rule, learn Spanish thoroughly ; they not only speak it well, they have usually boned a good Spanish grammar until they know the structure of the language as well as they do their own. The average American, on the other hand, learns...
...Picayune, the Tribune gave New Orleans its fourth daily (third was the Item's afternoon rival, the States) and made it one of the hottest competitive newspaper towns in the country. Within six years the Tribune was close behind the States in circulation, the Item and Tribune together outsold the Times-Picayune...