Word: salesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later that evening, talking about the lecture, the students wondered if they had understood the minister correctly. Did he really think that they could help international relations by going to India as unofficial salesmen of the U.S.? A telephone call got the tired traveler out of bed. For half the night he answered questions. Before the meeting broke up, the students had decided to put Visitor Robinson's suggestion into practice. They would go to India themselves...
Chicago is blasé about conventions, and professes to see little difference between politicos, Elks and fertilizer salesmen, but the city is nevertheless pulling its sprawling self together. Traffic to the convention hall (near Chicago's stockyards) is being rerouted, streetcleaners are busier than they have been for years, and cops have orders to be polite for a few days. Police also announced that "the lid" would be clamped on in Clark Street's numerous strip joints, though Chicago lids have a way of not staying on much more firmly than a stripper...
...place to take part in a political demonstration forbidden by the government?" "Certainly not," answered pipe-sucking Prefect of Police Jean Baylot, whose attitude toward Communist rioters is a skull for a skull. "I don't care if they're ambassadors, priests, pastors, rabbis or candy salesmen. If they take part in an illegal demonstration, they will suffer the consequences...
...Nance, Packard got one of the ablest salesmen and shrewdest analysts of new markets in U.S. industry. In four years he had built Hotpoint's sales from $20 million to $200 million, made it one of the stiffest competitors of G.E.'s own lines of freezers, refrigerators, stoves, etc. (TIME, Nov. 26). While G.E. welcomed this kind of aggressiveness, Nance ran his show so much like an independent kingdom that his elbows stuck out in G.E.'s hierarchical command. When Nance, by turning down a G.E. executive vice-presidency last year, refused to take his place...
...warehousemen are talking about the turnabout in the market; steelmakers themselves are offering no price concessions. Nevertheless, new patterns are emerging. Birmingham reports that Northern mills are sending agents into the South looking for business as a hedge against expected surpluses. Giant Bethlehem Steel Corp. has sent teams of salesmen to the Chicago area hunting up trade. In Detroit, warehousemen are offering to absorb freight costs to lure buyers in the Gary and Cleveland markets...