Word: salesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alexander Papagos, the 76-year-old Chancellor hopes to erase some of the bitterness left by the Nazi occupation and to convince Greece that West Germany can be a good partner. In Turkey, where Germans are popular, he expects to cement a "long-term partnership" that will help German salesmen-and eventually German diplomats-in the Moslem world...
Touches of this sort fill the movie. Salesmen discuss the mysterious murder in the same breath with routine conversation about their product. A line of dancers at the Palladium goes through its act while a man lies dying. Always, terror intrudes in normal circumstances; this is the essence of Hitchcock's technique, and with the steady acting of Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll plus fine photography, this essence makes The 39 Steps a memorable film event...
Part of the reason for management's surrender was that it was clear, from Bennett's vote-getting campaign, that management might lose the proxy fight. Furthermore, the company was getting a bad name in the trade because of the fight, and salesmen reported that customers were shying away for fear that American Woolen might not be able to deliver the goods. With the new balance of power, it looked as if the fight would be patched up. The board shelved the original plan to call in the preferred stock, decided to use the $20 million for modernizing...
...weeks after publication of the TIME article, the letters and phone calls were still coming in. The only one of the eager salesmen who got through to Weeks personally was his old friend Paul Hoffman. But as yet, not even Hoffman has made a sale. Said he: 'I put all the heat on him I knew...
...Commerce Secretary Weeks, a large part of whose job is to watch the business horizon, the whole episode was very heartening." Said Weeks, I was certainly impressed with the alertness shown by salesmen to develop what they thought was a sales opportunity...