Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...individual family's slice would be too thin to make much difference; 2) tax cuts would be of no direct help to the unemployed; and 3) "the country needs the money." An Iowa milkman, a Georgia welder, a Texas printer, a California autoworker and a New Jersey insurance salesman all used almost identical words: "It would help me personally, but how can the Government run without money? And what will we do about the Russians...
...slight inflection of voice and read what it means." The earnest student scrutinized card sharps and suckers from Indiana to Chungking-and while he parted them from their cash, some of them came apart themselves. He was at Monty's Place in Worthington the morning a traveling salesman named Jake Moses sat in a "friendly" game and was bluffed out of ten trunks full of shoes. He watched Bones Alverson, a slow-witted farmer, bet his heavily mortgaged land against a traveling tent show, and die of a heart attack when he drew a winning four aces...
...about 300 Ibs. of Thiokol sealants). Then in 1946 Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, working on a radically new solid rocket fuel, tried mixing an oxidizing agent with rubber. But it had trouble combining the oxidizer with solid rubber, tried liquid Thiokol by happenstance (a Shell Oil Co. salesman recommended it to a Jet Propulsion lab technician). When Thiokol's management found out what was going on, it decided to try producing Thiokol-based solid fuels...
ARTHUR WILLIAM CAMMER is a Los Angeles salesman of low-priced garden and patio furniture, whose orders this year are three to four times better than last. The fact only moves Salesman Cammer to complain: "My suppliers have become so panicky over the news of bad business that they can't ship my orders when I need them." Of such paradoxes is 1958's recession made, and rarely did they show more clearly than last week. The price of aluminum was cut, partly because of slow consumption, but the price of oil stayed up, despite huge excess supplies...
...English major at Vanderbilt. One quick reform: a boost in page-ad rates from $200 to $1,200. Now that the magazine is aloft and gathering speed, its young staffers are even talking of selling 1,000,000 copies an issue by the end of 1958 Says Space Salesman Heagy: "It doesn't hurt to aim high...