Word: salesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would horrify the peppy, up-to-the-minute salesman of today. Kramer would not tamper with the grim plot of his forthcoming film version of Death of a Salesman. But he offered a sop. Columbia would make a special ten-minute short for Whitney's organization, showing that salesmen these days are not like Willy Loman at all, but happy, well-trained technicians who are a valuable natural resource...
Last week a script was all ready for shooting, and Kramer had agreed to narrate it himself. When he turns it over to Whitney, for showing at schools and sales meetings, he will have made a neat little sale himself. Thousands of salesmen (and potential movie customers) will hear Producer Kramer explain: "Death of a Salesman was a great play. It will be a great picture...
...likes the rivalry; it gives buyers a greater "choice" of products, permits Hotpoint to reach dealers who would be excluded by G.E.'s existing franchises. Hotpoint's competition also keeps G.E.'s own salesmen and production staff on their toes. The competition is even stiffer than G.E. bargained for. In Nance's four years as president, he has pushed Hotpoint from a relatively minor place to a spot among the big electric appliance manufacturers, boosted its yearly sales from $20 million to an estimated $200 million...
...rest are students, retired, etc.) Of the employed, 68 per cent are in business, the rest in professions, government and armed forces. Of those who are in business, 19 per cent are owners, partners and top executives, 21 per cent are department heads, superintendents, etc., 18 per cent salesmen and 14 per cent engineers, technicians and other professionals...
...increasing number of films, brochures and special mailings are sent to wives. Salesmen's wives sometimes get heavy-handed reminders, that the company is running a sales contest in which their husbands can win such prizes as fur coats, refrigerators, toasters, etc. Another firm has set up a kind of finishing school for wives. "As soon as the husband reaches the $8,000-to-$10,000 bracket, his wife becomes eligible, for grooming." A vice president's wife takes her in hand, shows her where to shop, eat, vacation and how to dress and entertain...