Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Horace Hooper, a U.S. book salesman, appeared in Britain, began dealings that led to his buying the Britannica (in 1901). In 1898, he teamed with the Times of London in a hard-sell campaign to hawk the encyclopedia at cut rates with time payments and advertising. A howl arose over the raucous black-type hucksterism in the grey pages of the "Thunderer." Wrote one affronted M.P. to Hooper: "You have made a damnable hubbub, sir, and an assault upon my privacy with your American tactics." But in a few years, Hooper's whooping sold 100,000 sets...
...matches promised to be Russian pushovers. Bantamweight (class limit: 123½ Ibs.) Charles Vinci, a squat Ohio steelworker who has been recently unemployed, had been forced to trade valuable training time for job hunting, and was worn out. Middle-Heavyweight (198½ Ibs.) Dave Sheppard, the handsome health-food salesman who claims an unofficial world eating championship (five meals daily with snacks in between), was weak from dieting...
...spend time talking about the recession. They're too busy doing something about it-with phone calls, personal letters, direct-mail pieces. We'd like to invite you to drop into either of our showrooms, so we can sell you a car. (In fact, a salesman will be calling you today for an appointment.)" The Journal printed the letter in its letters-to-the-editor column, with the dry comment: "The salesman didn't call...
...Talley, 56, president of Coca-Cola Export Corp. since 1954, was elected president of the Coca-Cola Co. to succeed William E. Robinson, 57, who moved up to chairman and will remain chief executive officer. Son of a minister, Alabama-born Talley went to Coca-Cola as a salesman right after Atlanta's Emory University, won a reputation as a topnotch troubleshooter, made his mark in Coke's hierarchy by putting some fizz into the Canadian subsidiary as its president. ¶Edgar A. Jones, 42, was named president of Greyhound's two-year-old Rent...
...have learned to build engines that run twice as long without an overhaul; brakes have twice the stopping power and twice (40,000 miles) the life; lights, springs, tires, steering, seats and upholstery are all vastly better. "It has become fashionable not to buy a car," says a G.M. salesman with some bitterness. "Then, to prove you are really chic, you find something wrong with all cars-maybe one word, 'Horrible.' That shows everybody you have good taste-and it conceals the real fact: you don't want to commit yourself to paying...