Word: salesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parking places, ladies' electric razors or Lincoln Continental Mark IIs (there is a waiting list in Houston, where the delivered price is $10,700). There are shortages of scrap metal, aluminum, copper, newsprint, canned salmon, seats on airlines from Manhattan to Miami, and selenium.* There are too few salesmen, secretaries, schoolteachers, diemakers, loom fixers, machine-tool operators, mechanics, household servants...
...purpose of exploiting things," he said with a broad Slavic smile. "I would say to these people that we are quite willing to compete with them for the friendship of India." With all the talent, affability and wile at their command, Soviet Communism's two traveling salesmen plunged into the competition last week. In legislative halls and banquet rooms, at ancient shrines and new construction projects, in plush drawing rooms and crowd-crammed streets, with merry quips, tough speeches and promises tossed out like rose petals, they wooed the great uncommitted mass (1,140,000 sq. mi.) and minds...
...smeared across their proletarian foreheads, sat glumly with Nehru while they were made honorary Boy Scouts. They politely disregarded Neutralist Nehru's insistence that India is with neither bloc in the cold war; repeatedly the Russians described India as their "ally," and often they talked less like salesmen than like benign senior partners down on an inspection trip...
...secret police first ran hands through the baskets to be sure that only petals were in them. "Fifty-one is the most auspicious number, according to the stars," explained Uttar Pradesh's chief minister, who also happens to be India's most enthusiastic amateur astrologer. The traveling salesmen were bound now for Bombay, where, only two days before, Communists and other left-wing labor leaders had staged a riot that killed 15 and injured 200, to protest Nehru's proposed changes in Indian state boundaries. But by the time Khrushchev and Bulganin arrived, the Reds had obligingly...
...wind is not blowing in our faces. We can wait for better weather." He did not explain that the Communists have no intention of waiting supinely while nature makes the weather. They had come to India not only as traveling salesmen, but also as rainmakers. One member of the Bulganin-Khrushchev party brought with him a letter of instructions (from Pravda Editor Dmitri Shepilov) now being secretly circulated among the leaders of India's estimated 60,000 Communist Party members. It refers to Jawaharlal Nehru as "our unconscious ally," outlines Communist strategy for swaying Nehru close to Soviet economic...