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...Last year the average first year dealer made $1240.46, and the company's top salesman raked in $15.500 The company's recruiters also stress the benefits of the arduous sales experience, both in personal development and business training. But the program also carries its share of risks Since student salesmen must pay all of their own expenses while on the road and are only paid by commission at the end of the summer, there are stories of students who have been left stranded far from home. In addition, the recruiters' aggressive techniques have drawn criticism because they often sway wavering...
That a popularly elected government in a distant nation should be deposed for the sake of a bunch of banana salesmen may seem absurd and even comical. Mostly though, it is terrifying. Arbenz's policies--essentially the legalization of labor unions and a modest land reform that expropriated only unused fields, including much of United Fruits holdings--were hardly those of a Marxist revolutionary Nor did they pose a lethal threat to United Fruit's interests, its fruit-producing lands remained untouched But America, caught up in the hysteria of McCarthysim and the Cold War, flinched. The reflex to react...
...grapes sweep to the base of the Gabilan Mountains. Up close, the scene is not so idyllic: the San Andreas splits the winery building like a conveyor belt. On the North American plate, employees are playing basketball. Across the road, on the Pacific plate, there is a seminar for salesmen in a conference center. Half of the 5,330-gal. oaken tanks of stored wine are on the American plate, while the rest are sliding by, ever so slowly, on the Pacific plate; if they maintained present course and speed, they would arrive in San Francisco in a few millenniums...
...tangible gains from this policy of showering weapons abroad. Saudi Arabia, for example, has so far refused to give any "public" assurances about its possible use of AWACS planes that might mollify Israel. On Weinberger's recent trip, a Saudi official told U.S. visitors: "You are just arms salesmen, and we pay cash," making it clear that the Saudis would use the AWACS any way they please. The only reply from the White House was a remark from one spokesman: "We do not regard that as an official statement." Selling arms to Jordan is supposed to counter Soviet influence...
Then interest rates rose and public enthusiasm for American cars fell. London's sales skills were not enough to overcome those obstacles, and a year ago his monthly take-home line dropped to $250. His job, in effect, disappeared. He recalls sadly, "Salesmen don't get fired. They give...