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About 20 to 30 students will staff the station without pay this summer, working with a $3000 budget. WHRB's usual operating costs are about $1200 per month. The summer staff will include a full-time salesman to solicit ad- vertisements, a job WHRB members are sometimes reluctant to take...
Early in May, Van Andel, 54, the tall, sandy-haired grandson of an immigrant Dutch bicycle salesman, began a one-year term as chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (membership: 84,000 companies, organizations, state and local chambers and individuals). Voted in by the Chamber's board, Van Andel expects to fill his traditionally figurehead role by making speeches and TV appearances, attending White House meetings and testifying on Capitol Hill in behalf of business...
...station closings bring out a suspicious streak in many drivers. Across the country, large numbers of motorists believe that the shortage has been contrived by the oil companies and the Government to push up prices. Says John Langille, a Boston salesman who keeps topping off the tanks of his two cars: "It's the same as in '73. As soon as gas goes to $1.20 a gallon we'll have all we want...
...Carlson, who once threatened to drive nails up through a salesman's chair to get him out on the road, amply rewards performance. Roughly 20 executives get a new luxury car every year, and high-achievers can receive bonuses of up to 50% of their salary. To celebrate the company's ascension to the $1 billion sales mark, 39 senior officers and their spouses will be treated to a three-week trip through the Orient this month. More important, says Carlson, "my top executives will retire as millionaires...
Ever since he was young, Carlson has shown a colorful blend of salesmanship and independence. After graduating from the University of Minnesota in 1937, he took an $85-a-month job as a soap salesman, but the entrepreneurial spirit moved him in 1938 to ask his landlord for a deferral of a month's rent. With this $55 he started the Gold Bond Stamp Co. He quit his job and began selling the stamps to neighborhood grocers until 1952, then advanced to supermarkets. The seven-to eight-month "float" between the time that he sold the stamps...