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...great work. He proposes that an office of Administration Publicity be set up to broadcast with trumpet blares what the President is so reticent in telling. There will be a hierarchy of advertising agents, speakers and political salemen, in fact all the machinery of commercial selling, including "pep talks." The party in power will peddle its wares to the nation while the nation pays the over-head. (From the CRIMSON, April...
...weaknesses: a few flop songs and scenes, and a less lively second act. The show's chief liability is that bane of musicals, love, which-requited or unrequited-can seem banal. Even so, the show's chief asset. Director Abbott's testing everywhere for pace and pep, helps to shorten the doldrums. And for the evening as a whole, the reaction to the Abbott test is decidedly positive...
...tactics," a series of suave radio commercials about what Eaton later called "the one purchase everybody has to make." Next, the builder boosted sales by offering waterproof, fireproof, wormproof and even quakeproof vaults. Every morning he called his salesmen together and started the day with a prayer and a pep talk. They must always remember, he told them, that they were selling immortality...
...Edsel died, Ford got ready to put more pep into the Ford line. Next month Ford will begin deliveries of a 360-h.p. engine that is topped among U.S. stock cars only by the 380 h.p. in the Chrysler 3OO-E. Ford's aim is to outdo both Plymouth (330-h.p. top) and Chevrolet (335-h.p. top) with its new engine...
...force that gives the U.S. economy its pep is being generated more and more in the teeming aisles of the nation's stores. From the Commerce Department last week came an estimate that retail sales in October reached $18.3 billion on a seasonally adjusted basis, a 7.8% gain over last year's level and the first time October sales have burst through the $18 billion mark. In November's first week, sales in U.S. department stores were running 5% ahead of last year. Retail sales for the first ten months of 1959 total $179.9 billion, 9% above...