Word: salesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost trebled in size; this year enrollments total 16,000 full-time students. But the 16,000 are only a small fraction of those who study at M.S.C. Each year, some 100,000 people come from all over the state to take special short-term courses. They include insurance salesmen and pickle packers, fur breeders and cattlemen, farmers who come 40,000 strong for the annual Farmers' Week. For those who cannot make the trip, M.S.C. has other means of extending "service": lecturers, farm and home demonstrators, and assorted publications running to a million circulation a year...
...musicians, during the day teachers, carpenters, painters and salesmen, went on playing for their own pleasure at the Ionic Temple. Before long, so many people dropped in to listen that the players decided to start giving concerts. They gave them Scandinavian style. During intermissions the musicians would step down from the stage, mingle with the guests. After the concert, there would be coffee, cakes, sometimes a dance. Over the years the orchestra grew in size from 36 to 75; when they got a regular conductor, Vienna-born Eduard Werner, they began to grow in proficiency. In recent years their weekly...
...Connaught Rooms, eleven U.S. businessmen last week tackled a tough job. They were there to persuade 500 members of Britain's Incorporated Sales Managers Association that Britain could sell more goods in the U.S., but only by adopting U.S. methods and working at the breakneck speed of U.S. salesmen...
...split into three groups for tours of Manchester, Edinburgh and other cities. In some cities, the Americans found the speaking platform crowded with the mayor and other local dignitaries. The Americans politely told them: "One of the first selling points is that all attention must be concentrated on the salesmen. So if you please, we'll have to clear the platform." The astonished dignitaries politely stepped down...
...Mont Television Network last week offered a time-and travel-saving substitute for salesmen's conventions. Over a closed circuit from New York to 20 major cities, Du Mont will televise speeches from executives to company employes, permit them to offer comments and ask questions from the "floor" through an audio circuit tied in with the TV hookup. The "Closed Circuit Convention Plan" becomes available on April 1, from 9 a.m. to noon. Price: $11,000 for the first hour, with a 25% discount on additional time. Missing: the wine, women, song and bad jokes of that hitherto indestructible...