Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bristling. In Memphis, Brush Salesman Stanley Brown was fined $153 for trying to force a housewife into her bathtub so that he could demonstrate a back-scrubbing brush...
...Logan Truax Johnston, 60, was elected president and chief executive officer of Armco Steel Corp., succeeding Ralph Larrabee Gray, 65, who will become chairman. Pittsburgh-born Logan Johnston started in the steel industry in 1925 as a salesman for Columbia Steel Co. of Butler, Pa., joined Armco in 1927 when Columbia was merged with it, has made a career selling steel. He was named Armco's general manager of sales in 1947, a vice president in 1952 and executive vice president in 1958. As president, Johnston is expected to press product variety, which has made Armco fourth...
...contrast between Secretary Gates and outgoing Secretary McElroy could hardly be greater. McElroy (who goes back this week, with no regrets, to a new Procter & Gamble job as board chairman at upwards of $285,000) is an attractive, extraverted salesman-impatient with details or lengthy briefings, a man who shrinks from offending a friend or customer, who agonizes over difficult decisions. In his 26 months as Defense Secretary, which began so dramatically only five days after the first Sputnik soared into history, McElroy has had a hit-or-miss record (TIME, June 22). As a salesman, succeeding rough-handed "Engine...
...successful year in the history of the U.S. toy industry. Total retail sales will reach $1,650,000,000, an 18% increase over 1958. Not only are toymakers selling more, but the big overall trend this year is toward higher prices for more elaborate and ingenious toys. Said a salesman at Dallas' Sanger Bros.: "An $8 toy isn't considered expensive at all any more...
Bristling. In Memphis, Brush Salesman Stanley Brown was fined $153 for trying to force a housewife into her bathtub so that he could demonstrate a back-scrubbing brush...