Word: papered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perhaps the wholesaler, then the jobber, then the retailer. In the automobile business they go through that part of the organization which has to do with the supervision of agencies, then through the agency itself, and from the salesman to the consumer. In the case of businesses which manufacture paper, dye stuffs, and other materials the goods go through the hands of at least one sales representative. The general field of salesmanship has shown many changes in the last forty or fifty years. Originally there was the drummer whose chief function was simply to unload; then came the salesman...
...field takes fewer men from the liberal arts college than any of the other great divisions of business. Men trained in physics or chemistry may go into production work and some of the similar companies where less technical training is required, as for example, manufacturing of furniture or sand paper. Many men learn the process without an engineering background. In general, however, the way is long and tedious, and the very things which make for success in other fields are not so important when dealing with the various phases of production work...
...shrill, tinkling sound as a large advertising glass house was struck by a swiftly moving missile. The glass house was the elaborate structure of testimonial advertising currently so conspicuous. The missile was an attack on testimonial advertising launched by Frederick C. Kendall, editor of Advertising & Selling, fortnightly trade-paper. The damage, considerable, was difficult to estimate...
...which last week rose 1,200 points in two days and reached a quotation of $7,300 a share. As George F. Baker, board chairman of First National, is said to hold 20,000 shares (there are only 100,000 outstanding) the 1,200-point rise gave him a paper profit of 24 million dollars. Meanwhile shares in Chase, Equitable, and many another Manhattan bank also enjoyed sensational rises. The bull movement in bank stocks was based on the official ratification of the Guaranty Trust Co.-National Bank of Commerce merger (TIME, March 4) and the resultant activity of rumor...
...nothing, but that the matters that needed attention were somehow attended to. And all the time there was the glory of being important. Countless little dangles hung from his watch chain and his name was on countless lips as well as often seen in the columns of the college paper. The dances were even better, for there he and his friends met all the nice girls. To Peter their conversation scintillated; it was ever so much more clever than his own. These girls really were clever, that was the wonderful thing about them; they always had something...