Word: salesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ordinarily the hucksters gobble down the prime cuts of television time, while the experimenters, the educators and the innovators have to pick at the spare and bony hours when nobody is looking, or everybody is dozing from too much Sunday dinner. Last week the salesmen risked a little experimenting themselves and alloted one of TV's choicest hours to a program devoted to science and scientists. It was a pleasant and nourishing dish. With CBS's Our Mr. Sun, the first of a seven-part, hourlong Bell Telephone series, TV proved that though there is nothing new under...
...Exchange had been investigating the gyrations in the stock of a little steel company named Chatco Steel Products Ltd. Last week the exchange ordered trading in the stock stopped "to protect the interests of American investors"-supposedly the small, unknowing investors who had bought the shares through high-pressure salesmen in the U.S. But this was only part of the story...
...trading in Sweet Grass, a favorite of the little speculator. Fortnight ago, Hearst Financial Columnist Leslie Gould listed it in his "Don't Be a Sucker" series as one of the hot items peddled over the counter by boiler shops using batteries of phones and sweet-talking salesmen. There were several reports that holders of big blocks of the stock were pushing it on over-the-counter brokers at 15% under the market price. On the American Exchange the stock became one of the most heavily traded, ranged from a high of sf to last week...
...many cities, say downtown merchants, sales are higher than ever. Despite some 15 major shopping centers around Houston, business-district sales last year were 7% above 1954 levels. Says the Detroit Retail Merchants Association's James Dallavo: "Suburban shopping centers have made downtown merchants better promoters and salesmen, with emphasis on wider assortment and price range." Most downtown store owners who open shopping-center branches say that they are thus able to attract new customers, most of whom inevitably visit the parent store. In the fight for the shopper's dollar, downtown merchants have also been helped...
Ingram's salesmen sold caps with more than 25,000 different inscriptions; production rose from 240,000 caps in 1932 to more than 42 million in 1955. Caps with Arabic lettering went to a milk company in Beirut, Lebanon. Caps with "Pida Pepsi'' and "Quaker Oats, Mucha Nutricion a Poco Costo" went to Mexico. Caps went to fruit peddlers in Vicenza, Italy, to soft-drink vendors in Caracas, Venezuela, to pickle packers in Pittsburgh...