Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little more than one-fiftieth of an inch long, later identified as the northern fowl mite (Ornithonyssus sylviarum). The black dots Mrs. T. had noticed proved to be the mites' droppings. Evidently the mites caused the itching, and the fact that Mrs. T.'s husband, a clothing salesman, was not affected, though he slept in the same room, was probably a matter of individual sensitivity. But how did the mites get into the bedroom of a Philadelphia suburban home? The medical detectives tracked them to an unlikely source -the window air conditioner. The machine's intake...
...Francisco's venerable Levi Strauss & Co. (Levi pants) has long held out against sales contests, gimmicks and giveaways, convinced that the only way to boost sales is to get the salesman to work harder. Last week Strauss & Co. broke tradition and decided to give its salesmen one big reason to work harder: a sales-incentive program for its staff that pays them a cash bonus for new accounts or sales over quotas. In so doing, it joined the growing number of U.S. firms that are putting new stress on sales-incentive programs to combat the recession...
...most U.S. salesmen, the greatest incentive of all is still cash on the paycheck in the form of extra bonuses and commissions. But cash incentives are gradually being supplemented-or replaced-by rewards that have a greater "remembrance value," such as trips for both the salesman and his wife and family. One reason for the switch: cash bonuses often never get home, are blown in a poker game or spree on the town...
Death of a Salesman is perhaps the most popular--and in many ways the best--serious play written in America during this century. And it is fitting that it should achieve such notoriety in this country, because it is an intensely American play and comes to grips with some of the problems that the new society we have created in the last fifty years has spawned...
Taken as a whole, and forgiving the occasional roughness that is native to repertory theatre, Group 20's Death of a Salesman is imaginative, moving, and mature theatre