Word: salesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...standard procedure at all record companies. Advance copies are sent out to as many as 2,000 of the nation's 5,000-odd disk jockeys-the real middlemen of the ballad business. No A & R man can soundly predict how a new disk will take. But company salesmen as a group are good prognosticates, and certain cities, such as Philadelphia and Boston, seem to be particularly seismographic in detecting the rumble of an approaching hit. If the signs are good, the company may press as many as 150,000 copies in the first edition, and then pray...
...Bata factory (one of 37 in the free world) outside Lima will make 1,000,000 pairs of canvas and rubber shoes a year. Bata expects to sell them for 11 soles (70?) a pair through 46 stores and by circulating through the highlands demonstration vans with movies, native salesmen and balloons for the kiddies. "I think," Bata says, "I've got something better than cockleburs...
...cigar factories of Tampa and Key West, he persuaded Cuban workers to join his Revolutionary Party and give a day's wages every week to the cause. Tactfully, he brought the proud generals of the Ten Years War under his command; incongruously, he haggled with munitions salesmen in New York hotel lobbies. More than anyone else, he touched off the revolt...
...side, Ham Moses also battled public power to a standstill in Arkansas. In one skirmish, when Jackson County was to vote on establishment of a countywide power cooperative, Moses mobilized a force of 50 A.P.L. salesmen, gave them a two-day course in the company's side of the argument, and sent them to spread the gospel among cotton pickers and housewives. Moses himself did two-hour daily stints on the radio. A.P.L. won the fight by better than four...
...salesmen, already selected by the Aid Center according to need, will pick up their baskets at the Eliot House Grillo around 9 p.m., and then go from entry to entry in their own Houses, signalling students with a whistle...