Word: salesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complaints from some of his customers, the Securities and Exchange Commission started investigating him and his company, turned over its findings to the Justice Department. Last week in Boston, a federal grand jury returned a 70-count indictment, against Warner, two of his office managers and seven of his salesmen...
Ritchie's stack of orders revealed that the additive was used in tinkling Good Humor wagons. Such hard-fisted businesses as the Gillette Co. and General Foods Corp. were satisfied AD-X2 customers. Engineers from industry, mechanics from the Army and Navy, battery salesmen, all praised the additive in testimony before the committee. But no one could swear that AD-X2 had really revived their batteries. "Suppose you have a cold," suggested Dr. Astin, "and you take some aspirin, and you are better the same day. Did the aspirin do it, or would you have been better anyway...
...their production for defense and Government stock piling, aluminum's Big Three in the U.S. (Alcoa, Reynolds, Kaiser) cannot meet booming U.S. civilian demand. No foreign competitor knows this better than Canada's Aluminium Ltd., world's biggest producer of primary aluminum ingot. Its salesmen have been calling on the Big Three. Last week, Aluminium Ltd. closed deals with Alcoa and Kaiser to supply them with a whopping 713,000 metric tons of aluminum during the next five years. Price: more than $300 million...
...last week's sale (the first of four scheduled), the cars were washed and polished by convicts from the state penitentiary. Clement, who had gone on TV to advertise the sale, auctioned off the first and last cars and two others. Among the other salesmen: ex-Governor James McCord, an auctioneer by profession. Because the carnival spirit of the sale made for free spending, Clement and his friends knocked the cars down at bids well above local retail prices for comparable used cars. Average for the 44 cars, one to seven years old: $1,065. After the sale...
...while firemen were still wetting down the ashes, Connelly rented half the second floor of the Penn-Sheraton Hotel for temporary offices and installed his staff. While some were scouting around for an empty plant to move into, Connelly's salesmen were out after orders...