Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most responsible for the hemisphere trade is a Spanish-born (1889), Chilean-raised, U.S.-trained salesman for Hays named Eladio Susaeta. His first employer, a rich Chilean rancher, sent him north to study animal husbandry at the University of California. Susaeta wrote his boss what he learned about milk-rich Holsteins, convinced him that milk could be as profitable as the beef on which Latinos concentrated. Returning with a B.S. in 1917, Susaeta brought several head along with him. He later stocked a ranch of his own with los Holsteinos, began promoting them far & wide. Ultimately he gave...
Susaeta claims that if it weren't for the dollar shortage he could sell $500,000 worth of Holsteins to Chileans alone. Chile has done as much as it could to help. This year it raised the permissible limit on dollars for purebred imports by 100%. Unfortunately for Salesman Susaeta, he has already almost filled the resulting $100,000 limit, and still has eleven months...
...admiringly presented to Harry Truman. Most of them went back to Kansas City and the country's Main Streets, finally to become middle-aged heroes of the best-known battery in the A.E.F. Tommy Murphy started raising a family of seven children and ended up as a paint salesman...
Died. Nelson Doubleday, 59, shrewd, hulking (6 ft. 5 in., 220 lbs.) book publisher (Doubleday & Co.); of cancer; in Oyster Bay, N.Y. The No. 1 book salesman of his time, he took over the business from his father, bought out the Literary Guild in 1934, ended up operating six book clubs, a nationwide chain of bookstores, two reprint and mail-order houses (his presses ran off 30 million books in 1948). As a child he persuaded Rudyard Kipling to write Just So Stories, collected a 1? royalty on each copy sold in his lifetime...
...Buick's Ivan L. Wiles, 50, a tall, greying statistician who moved up from comptroller into Red Curtice's job; Oldsmobile's Sherrod E. Skinner, 52, a dark, heavyset, prim engineer; and Pontiac's Harry J. Klingler, 59, lean, angular and eager, a bow-tied salesman who always has one more funny story up his sleeve when Wilson runs...