Word: salesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your plane was late and you couldn't get to 14 Plympton Street last night, don't worry. There is still an audience of varied and grizzled reporters, liberal thinkers, and callus-fingered salesmen waiting to welcome you into competition for their Boards--News, Editorial, and Business respectively...
...that this magnificent sales organization should be check-reined by the relatively cramped space in Madison Square Garden-a hall which seated 17,000 when it was cleared for the ball. In both 1948 and 1949, as a result, he grandiosely ordered 54,992 tickets printed up. His uniformed salesmen (who got a 20% commission in 1948, 25% in 1949) sold them like hotcakes...
...Company's New Orleans plant. Rheem had begun in earnest to cash in on its 1949 investment of over a million dollars to develop color lithography and precision inner linings for 55-gallon steel shipping containers. The exclusive Rheemcote process was realizing its aim: to make colorful steel salesmen out of the once drab steel drum...
From carnivals, boardwalks, county fairs and street corners across the U.S. the glib salesmen known as "pitchmen" were rushing into television. In the New York area alone, TV pitchmen expect to reap a $10 million harvest this year. This week Manhattan Adman Harold Kaye will have nearly 20 of his pitchmen doing more than 130 hours of solid selling on TV, hawking such merchandise as $1 card tricks, electric irons, luminous Christmas tree ornaments, infrared-ray broilers, talking dolls, $39.95 wristwatches (on "easy, generous terms...
...Look Easy. Pitchmen, happily tracing their ancestry back to the ancient Phoenician traders who once unloaded junk jewelry on Greek housewives, have not changed much in the past few thousand years. But in recent years they have moved indoors; first as department store demonstrators and then as radio salesmen. TV, however, is a pitchman's paradise: he reaches a large audience and is visible as well as vocal. "The pitchman's spiel is not as important as his hands," says 36-year-old Harold Kaye. "He sells in proportion to how skillful he is at manipulating the worker...