Word: salesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...code specifically bans a number of words and phrases, among them: bat (applied to a woman); nuts (except when meaning crazy); razzberry (the sound); torn cat (applied to a man). Also banned: jokes about traveling salesmen and farmers' daughters; suicide or divorce as an answer to human problems; fortunetelling, astrology, phrenology, palm-reading and numerology, if shown in a way that might "foster superstition or excite interest or belief...
...rich gypsum ores* near Buffalo, the three teamed up to form National Gypsum, and buck U.S. Gypsum, which then had a virtual monopoly on wallboard. They had $150,000 in capital, and figured that they needed $2,000,000. Baker raised it in four months by sending his salesmen out to sell stock instead of wallboard. In 1926, with a total of 57 employees, he began mining the gypsum and turning out wallboard, mainly by hand. Sales rose to $2,500,000 before Depression crippled the whole U.S. building industry...
...with its president and his family drawing $200,000 in salaries, with some salesmen earning more than $100,000 in commissions, American Lithofold was losing money. Twice it applied for an RFC loan. Twice it was refused. Refreshing his memory from a voluminous diary, Toole gave an account of his company's negotiations. Company officials held a council of war in Washington. Present was James P. Finnegan, then Federal Collector of Internal Revenue in St. Louis. No one had told Toole that Finnegan was on the corporation's payroll. At the time, Toole could only wonder...
Meetings, moving, laundry salesmen, and even advice from Phi Beta Kappas crowd the first week of the entering student. Just when things get quiet and an easy, country-club-like future seems apparent, the tyro finds his days crowded by the first meeting of classes...
Detroit is casual, rough-&-ready, informal-a city of bright neckties and T-shirts, bowling alleys, towering commercial hotels, overstuffed clubs buzzing with shoptalk and big deals. It is a city of salesmen, technicians and craftsmen, mechanics and makers of chemicals, furnaces, tools, dies and household appliances. Almost half of its employed population are the 320,000 workers who perform the automaton labor of the auto plants. They speak to the world through such trumpet-voiced agents as red-haired Walter Reuther-and speak so loud they are now among the best-paid workers in the world...