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Incidentally, the winner of the pedal-pusher's race will also receive a new bicycle...
...Potato Pusher. He became a county agent, toured his area teaching new farming methods to the oldsters and building up 4-H Clubs for the young. He made such a name for himself that he became an economist for the University of Idaho's extension service at the age of 30. He helped boost the new Idaho Cooperative Council; as its executive secretary, he was behind a publicity campaign that helped put Idaho baked potatoes on restaurant menus all over the U.S. Benson caught the eye of others in the farm-cooperative movement, in 1939 was offered a Washington...
...most striking inequities in the present law is that a paper may be sued when a story is correct in all its major details, if it is wrong on a minor fact. Thus the Daily Mail exposed a "swindling share-pusher" who had been selling phony stocks all over Europe, and added that he had become a Canadian citizen by improper means. The swindler sued the paper and won $200. The Mail proved to the court's satisfaction that he was a swindler, but was wrong about his citizenship...
...remarkably high, and morale excellent-despite the bad taste of the "stay down" strike of some reservists in the U.S.* Last month, for example, when a fighter-bomber group in Korea was assigned to attack a camouflaged enemy supply dump with its aging F-80s, every clerk, pencil-pusher and chairborne officer turned out voluntarily to help get the planes...
Bobst got his start as a $3-a-week pill pusher in Philadelphia, studied pharmacy at night, and got his license at 20. After managing a number of drugstores in the city, he landed a job as Philadelphia representative for Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., a big pharmaceutical house. Bobst called on all the doctors in the area, sold so many drugs that when Hoffmann-La Roche was going under in the 1920 depression, he was made general manager. He promoted new products, cut overhead, soon had the company in the black. He was made president, boosted...