Word: salesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cape of Good Hope, has created more new appetites and thirsts in more people than an army of dancing girls bearing jugs of wine. It has brought refrigeration to sweltering one-ox towns without plumbing, and it has transformed men one generation removed from jungle barter into American salesmen with an irresistibly sincere approach. It has successfully defied the concerted attacks of all Communist mouthpieces which denounce it as a drink vile, imperialistic and poisonous. Its makers suspect that it is the biggest thing since America provided oil to light the lamps of China and celluloid fables to feed...
...trainees spend weeks working in plants at every job involved in bottling, paste up posters, ride with salesmen on trucks delivering and selling Coca-Cola. They spend two weeks at Coca-Cola's central Production School in Atlanta, a minor university. At the end they are given a stiff three-hour exam (sample question: Describe briefly the process followed in cleaning and sterilizing syrup lines and syrup tanks...
Last week, on the day the new catalogue was due, Professor Baker paid a call on Peru's able, amiable President William L. Nicholas. There were two typewriter salesmen ahead of him, but the president's secretary let Professor Baker go in first ("This won't take long," he had told her). Face to face with Peru's president, Baker drew a pistol, fired five times, left Nicholas dying at his desk. Before the salesmen and secretary grasped what had happened, Baker strode out; he walked downstairs to the office of his department head, Professor Paul...
...other shops, her arms free for more parcels. When she is finished she picks up her groceries at a kiosk in the parking lot. Even the tenants in the office building are used as customer bait: Northgate is leasing space mostly to doctors, dentists and real-estate salesmen. Rex Allison figures that they will attract crowds of shoppers every...
Marathon runners are lonely men. We stood on a hill in Newton and watched the first ten of them pass. Before the leader came running evenly up the hill the balloon salesmen and the ice-cream salesmen and the newsboys and the police had prepared things...