Word: salesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...door, six carnation-wearing salesmen handed out free chances on a television set, plus a crisp sales chat--Smarter, Safer, Greater in Value, one-third down and 15 months to pay, and look at that chrome. As Pesky and Harris and the salesmen moved among the crowd wearing neat name-plates and dispensing raffle tickets the affair took on the conviviality of a bargain basement. And bargains there were, judging from numerous dark nods toward Porter Square's used car lot across the street. When trading closed for the day, only one of the new cars remained unsold and there...
...automotive repairs, will not be able to stay in business." In Detroit, the used-car capital, prices were down an average of $300, with most of the decline occurring last week. Even at that, sales were slow. Though the used-car lots were hit the hardest, new-car salesmen were also feeling the pinch. With the slump in used-car prices, dealers were forced to slash their trade-in allowances. One Hudson dealer in Detroit who had sold 30 cars two weeks ago last week sold just five...
...members of Red youth organizations had been crossing from East Germany into the Western zones. Many carried forged documents showing they were "refugees." Their task: to stage "blitz rallies" against the Western powers in West German cities, cause disorder, confusion and fear. The expense accounts of these Red traveling salesmen, reported Socialist Kurt Schumacher, were met from the proceeds of a vast coffee black market operated by the Russians in their occupation zone...
...scarce" and they better buy a grinder and grind their own. In six hours, Reporter Keasler sold his grinders and this week in the Journal he gleefully told how housewives 1) will buy anything if they think it's a bargain, and 2) pay no attention to what salesmen...
...Depression, their story goes, hosts of U.S. citizens sold their dogs short and bought cats. This may have been an economy measure. But "I cannot help feeling," the Lockridges quote one social commentator, "that, unconsciously at least, they wanted an animal that would not remind them of bond salesmen...