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...Assume that three doctors move out of Podunk to accept commissions in the Army and Navy. This will create a dangerous shortage of medical and dental care in Podunk. Assume that in Brooklyn, however, we have an overabundance of doctors and dentists, after the Army and Navy have called up the men they want...
...buyer is smart he will immediately knock down the merchandise manager or the boss if necessary, and get some extra folding money to put into inventories. Then, after more "secret" Washington powwows, the proposed restrictions "become known to even the obscure assistant buyer of The Big Store of Podunk" and manufacturers find themselves "forced into annoying and exasperating off-season production" (e.g., women's fall coat production in January and February was 30% above a year...
...Selling Podunk. President Judson of Community has 20 traveling salesmen. They earn their pay mostly in towns of 15,000 to 500,000. In Podunk, for instance, which has never heard any music better than the high-school band, a salesman calls on the local bigwiggery and the clubwomen, cajoles them into a week's fund-raising campaign to put Podunk on the musical map. When Podunk's committee has the money in the bank, the salesman checks over Columbia's list of appropriately-priced artists. For these, Podunkians pay list prices. But Judson's artists...
...whole. If the second and third stringers are always on the ball, and under Stahley there is a little doubt about that, the A team men are kept looking carefully after their laurels, else they wake up one day and find themselves crowding the bench while someone from West Podunk Academy is disporting in their place on the field. One such pusher, is a guard called Cheever, a converted centre, who though weighing but 155 pounds, has scratched his way up from the lower shelves to a B team ranking in a position he had never played before. Were...
Undergraduates at Cornell pack Bailey Hall for concerts, they provide a moderately large audience at the Dramatic Club, they occasionally attend lectures by visiting speakers. But the vast majority are more consistent in their devotion to the moving pictures, a technical discussion of the tactics employed in the Oshkosh-Podunk football game absorbs them more than a good book, and the bridge table is more popular than the lecture hall...