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...salesmen and buyers, stockholders are even more important. General Motors alone has almost 500,000 stockholders, thus a "presold" market for hundreds of thousands of cars. American Tobacco continuously urges its stockholders to "Buy American," hands out cartons of Luckies to its shareholders to pass on to their friends. Borden Corp. tested customer acceptance of its instant coffee and cheese products by first passing them around to stockholders. General Foods puts on fancy spreads of its foods at annual meetings, has a special order department so that stockholders can buy (at cost) $5 gift packages of its products to give...
...suggest conclusions for the story, for $6,000 in prizes. The prize contest disguised the real purpose of the broadcast: to create such suspense among the radio audience that all would rush to see the cinema. Advertisements for the trade called The Phantom of Crestwood "the picture that was presold to a hundred million," assured exhibitors that "all America wants to know who killed Jenny Wren...