Word: salesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Japanese security dealers opened a major campaign to attract more women investors. Some 6,000 salesmen began a door-to-door drive urging housewives to invest their husbands' winter salary bonuses-usually one to three months' pay-in stocks. Traditionally given in December, the bonuses used to go for rice wine, New Year's gifts and new clothes. Now a flood of mail urges Japanese wives to "multiply your huband's bonus wisely -in stocks. To become a millionairess is no longer an impossible dream...
...burst of moral indignation, the city fathers of Paris once ordered a roundup of vagrants. The police herded together a motley crowd of itinerant peddlers, rag and iron merchants, sidewalk salesmen. Loaded down with their bundles, dragging handcarts behind them, they straggled past Montmartre, cut through the Porte de Clignancourt and onto the plain of Saint-Ouen, where the army occasionally held maneuvers. Here the evicted peddlers settled down, offered their trinkets for sale to passersby. When the army seemed not to object, they put up awnings over their merchandise, built flimsy wooden booths. They sold everything from ormolu clocks...
Reading clockwise, and starting about nine o'clock, the show was staged in the lobby of the Hotel Touraine, and fashionably attended. There were of course dozens of salesmen and promoters eager to answer everyone's questions and there were some, like the young man above, who preferred to examine the equipment on their own. The binaural headsets went over big with the young married set, yet there were some, such as the Shavian gentlemen at about four o'clock, who found plain old stereo enough to keep them interested...
...discussing his colleagues and other interpreters of contemporary society, Sorokin is somewhat less generous. He has little patience for contemporary salesmen of comfortable panaceas, referring to them disparagingly as "Pollyannas of easy optimism." For his salvation from the imminent deluge, Sorokin urges, modern man must look neither to religious conversion ("mainly a cheap self-gratification for psycho-neurotics"), nor to psychoanalysis ("please regard it as the last step before suicide"), nor to changes in political leadership ("but who is going to guard the Guardians?"). The main channels are blocked. To what can man turn...
...licensed Seabrook Farms to process and sell frozen fruits and vegetables under the Snow Crop name, kept only Snow Crop's orange concentrate operations. By moving Minute Maid's headquarters from New York to Orlando, Fla. he cut costs and communication problems, trimmed marketing expenses by converting salesmen into brokers working on commission. Meanwhile, the growth of Florida cities has nearly tripled the value of Minute Maid's grove holdings to $28.8 million. Fox plans to sell suburban acreage each year, buy more rural property for groves...