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Word: salesmen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...selling positions, it would be in a better position to influence the hiring of new men. This is one of the big aims of the new policy because the Office fears that men whose selling ability outstrips their need will get job preference over those who are less effective salesmen but in worse financial circumstances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sugared Doughnuts | 11/18/1953 | See Source »

...thing that worried Mikoyan is the "inattentive and rude attitude on the part of Soviet salesmen to the consumer." "In the field of politeness," he said, "we have much ground to cover . . . What is one to think if, in a Stalingrad department store, a woman shop assistant answers the question of a woman customer: 'Where can one buy cheap cotton stuff?' in this way: 'I am not an inquiry office, citizen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Paradise by 1956 | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

Another big problem is the paralyzing inefficiency of Soviet salesmen. Take our advertising, said Mikoyan. "It is dull, stereotyped and inflexible . . . One can see such advertisements as Drink the Beer of the Breweries of Glavpivo." As if in contrast, he quoted the "precise and memorable slogans of our great poet Mayakovsky," who wrote for advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Paradise by 1956 | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

...salesmen at today's Harvard-Davidson football game will attest, there is nothing worse than an empty seat. And the 30,000-odd empty seats which will line the inside of the Harvard Stadium today are testimonial not to Davidson's winless record or afternoon parietal rules, but instead to just poor scheduling. The seats will be vacant as they were against Ohio University because only 10,000 people are interested in watching such a football game. Undergraduates will attend primarily because of the free ticket plan; the absence of young ladies, however, may make the Saturday night dining hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Home Town Boys | 10/31/1953 | See Source »

Scott McLeod, the State Department's chief of security, is a man of action. When Secretary of State John Foster Dulles asked his lieutenants to "act as forceful salesmen" in collecting contributions for the Washington Community Chest, Salesman McLeod reacted with characteristic forcefulness. Last week orders went down to the 1.142 employees of his Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs that everyone must either make a voluntary contribution to the chest or explain personally to McLeod. The word soon reached the Community Chest's Director Edward J. Keyes, who reacted with shocked surprise. He deplored McLeod...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dollar Diplomacy | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

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