Word: salesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent crime wave has troubled students at the College as well as at Radcliffe. Upon numerous occasions, the red warning light in the Yard has beamed benevolently down upon overanxious Christmas card salesmen, bicycle thieves, and confidence...
...Stuttgart plant (400 workers, 250 engineers) is currently producing only 300 cars a month, which is far below demand; at last week's show alone, Porsche salesmen took 200 orders. Ferry Porsche doggedly refuses to expand his sports-car output for fear of hurting the quality, but he is tinkering with prototypes of a jeep-type vehicle called "The Hunter," plans eventual production of 500 to 1,000 a month if there is sufficient demand...
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...whirling panorama of slant hatted insurance salesmen, cow-like women, bull-like men, and smiling madmen, Harington weaves a crazy pattern of the present. His starting thread is Hal Hingham, an agent of Arcadia Life, afraid of sales prospects, and frightened of his bulbous, seductive landiady. The image of Hingham the failure is obvious: "The broken, abandoned pencil-sharpener had depressed him. It reminded him of himself. People didn't care how they treated mass-produced equipment." He was a nobody in world that seemed complex and cruel. Even at childhood his father appeared one day only long enough...
...Frawley sold 4,000,000 pens and decided to invade the tough New York market. Twenty-two high-pressure salesmen visited 2,400 stores in six weeks. They wrote on retailers' shirts, promised a new $15 shirt if the ink did not wash out. His salesmen gave pens to school principals, won their approval and then advertised it. In the first year he spent $30,000 for advertising. This year PaperMate is spending $5,000,000. As a result, sales climbed from $360,000 to an estimated $26 million for 1955. In six years Frawley sold 51 million pens...