Word: salesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insurance in force of $23.7 billion. Yet Shanks thought the company was sitting on its hands. Group insurance sales were only a trickle, and ordinary life was gaining too slowly. Shanks vowed that his agents would be the world's "best trained, best selected and best supervised" insurance salesmen, instituted training courses that last as long as three years for his 18,500 agents...
SALESMAN SHORTAGE will force U.S. industry to add 400,000 new salesmen in next six months if they can be found, reports National Sales Executives, Inc. after nationwide manpower survey. But premium is on youth, and 72% of job opportunities will be closed to experienced men over...
...spirit of the American tradition, Boston celebrated Washington's Birthday with "open-house" automobile shows patriotically presented by local car dealers. With advertisements which tried to remind customers of Washington's legacy to the auto industry, the auto salesmen invited buyers to use their leisure holiday hours to inspect Detroit's latest magnificent arrivals...
...Nash Rambler showroom, salesmen quickly took customers into their confidence: "Wanna see a beaut? This one here goes for twenty-seven seventy-nine." Pointing out an auto wtih a color scheme that included beige and a muddy violet, the dealer said, "I call this one brown monotone, you see, 'cause it's all different shades of brown." In response to a question on the number of miles per gallon the little Nash Metropolitan got, he admitted, "Actually you get 34 miles to the gallon. They claim a little more...
...Customers poured in. To handle a daily turnover that increased a hundredfold, Gattegno took on 20 employees at wages remarkable for France: $250 a month for salesmen, $225 for the lowliest packer-more than three times the going rate. The first year Gattegno grossed $714,000. Moreover, said he proudly: "I pay my full taxes. I don't have two sets of books...