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...challenge IBM in the courts, but they have lacked the resources. They also feared that IBM-which controls many of the industry's patents, and licenses its competitors to use them-might not take too kindly to any outfit that brought it to court. IBM's gentlemanly salesmen, some of whom make $40,000 a year or more, can indeed be rugged competitors. Even so, the company's top management is known to take a somewhat protective attitude toward competition. IBM makes such profits (last year it earned $651 million after taxes on revenues of $5.3 billion...
...publicly rebuked ten Merrill Lynch employees, and seven were ordered temporarily suspended without pay. Among them were Archangelo Catapano, a vice president and the firm's aerospace specialist, who was suspended for 60 days, Philip F. Bilbao, vice president and manager of institutional services, and five of his salesmen each drew 21 days. Three other Merrill Lynch employees, including two more vice presidents, were just censured. The commission also ordered Merrill Lynch to close its New York institutional sales office for 21 days and its West Coast underwriting office for 15 days during December, one of the year...
...days. The railroad had just pushed across Michigan when a young New Jerseyan named Ralph Lane Polk arrived in Detroit to seek his fortune peddling various patent medicines. He found that the Iron Horse, steaming along at speeds of 40 m.p.h., had changed the world of traveling salesmen, enabling them to visit merchants in several towns in one day. Polk compiled a Gazeteer for Michigan in 1870, listing the names and addresses of shopkeepers within walking distance of railroad depots. The R. L. Polk company has been in business ever since. It branched out into publishing city directories (which were...
...hours before, were a very different group from the people who had turned out to see Wallace shortly before in New York and Trenton. Those people were predominantly blue-collar workers and their children. But in Harrisburg Wallace's supporters were of the older right-wing breed--used-car salesmen, small businessmen and farmers who used to be Republicans, not Democrats...
There were a lot of people who came to the Garden to witness a rip-snorting rally, a sort of raucous entertainment. Disappointed, they cursed the food salesmen who told them, "We're not selling beer because too many kids are here." I wondered briefly whether some Wallace-loving municipal bureaucrat was getting subtle revenge on the peace movement. Celtics' games, anyone knows, attract at least as many kids and everybody drinks. But political sanity, it must be supposed, hardly warrants the diversion Bill Russell and the gang...