Word: salesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American system of commercial radio is no great bargain. While it saves listeners from some problems of government ownership, and provides them with programs at no direct cost, the actual price of this method is high. For salesmen are mainly interested in selling, not in quality, truthfulness, or public service. And a radio system based on the Big Sell is one long stream of advertising, broken up by bits of standardized "entertainment." Most of this is repetitious drivel at best, but commercial radio still spews forth eight hours of soap opera daily because such abominations are a cheap...
Part of the wisdom was to hire native salesmen, who understood their country's temperament, to sell Parker pens around the globe. In ads in 31 languages, Parker plugged its products: the Duofold, Vacumatic, the "51" (which sold on India's and China's black markets during World War II for as much as $200). Under Ken Parker, who took over after his father's death in 1937, Parker's foreign sales rose to $13,700,000 last year, or about 40% of total sales of $32 million...
...compound of cellulose fiber (resembling sawdust) and various cleaning agents which can be rubbed into a rug, then brushed out bringing the dirt with it. After they got the word from Wallace, they hired three fieldmen and in a whirlwind, 21-day tour, set up a nationwide network of salesmen...
...Investors Diversified Services, Inc., has sold so many such savings plans that its total assets last week were above the $1 billion mark. Most big-city dwellers have never heard of I.D.S. But in farm areas and small towns all over the U.S. and Canada, some 2,000 salesmen, who make $8 to $20 per year on every $1,000 plan sold, sign up contracts for $5,000,000 in savings each week. The big appeal lies in the fact that I.D.S. makes people save. Contract signers cannot get out "even" until they have been in the plan several years...
...baseball umpires, corset salesmen, jet pilots and bagel bakers dominate the screen. British panelists are more likely to be guessing at such occupations as winkle-washer, teapot-handler, kipper-packer, gentleman's gentleman, or sagger-maker's bottom knocker (a pottery worker). A strictly British question which suddenly narrows down the field: Are you nationalized...