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...FORTUNE 500 largest U.S. companies have offices in Atlanta. Recent arrivals include National Distribution Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Eastern Air Lines; Americana Corp., a real estate marketing company; BP Oil Corp., a subsidiary of the Standard Oil Co. (Ohio). The comings and goings of corporate salesmen and executives help make Atlanta's airport the nation's second busiest, after Chicago's O'Hare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENTERPRISE: Atlanta's Beat Goes On | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

...though, had more than his fair share of abuse by unscrupulous promoters in recent years. Being the unassuming (and somewhat thickheaded) bear that he is, he has not protested when snatched up by entrepreneurs to be their moneymaking lure. Sears salesmen palm off bogus Poohs on cups, cereal bowls and children's clothes. In his Pooh Perplex, Frederick C. Crewes uses Winnie as a straw bear to be analyzed in every way imaginable in a parody of literary criticism. Walt Disney latched onto the Pooh image in an hour-long cartoon, but substituted Hollywood caricatures for Shepard's illustrations...

Author: By Martha Stewart, | Title: A Musical Milne | 7/21/1972 | See Source »

...completely halting sales on its higher-priced current models, Polaroid refuses to disclose the exact price of its new one.) Can the mass market possibly bear that price? Land answers extravagantly: "I think this camera can have the same impact as the telephone on the way people live." Polaroid salesmen are so sure of the SX-70's appeal that they speak of rationing it among dealers and predict that every unit produced in the first twelve months-perhaps 1,000,000 or more-will sell instantly. Reason: the new camera eliminates just about all the bugs that have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETING: Polaroid's Big Gamble on Small Cameras | 6/26/1972 | See Source »

...industry. He has transformed the motel from the old wayside fleabag into the most popular home away from home. Until 1952, when he founded Holiday Inns, most motels were of the "no tell" variety, generally shabby and faintly disreputable places that catered mainly to casual lovers and transient salesmen. Wilson was among the first to foresee that the fast post-World War II rise in U.S. personal income would lead to a rapid expansion in both business and leisure travel. He also sensed that people on the move would prefer to stay in lodges that offered, in addition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: Rapid Rise of the Host with the Most | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

...industry's best performer in the 1950s and still ranks high among large growth funds. Price has one other fund in his fold, the Rowe Price New Era, started in 1969. All of Price's funds are "no loads," meaning that the funds have no salesmen and the buyer does not pay a sales commission. Price's funds have won such a reputation as sound investments that last year their combined net sales amounted to $214 million, an amazing 54% of all mutual-fund net sales-even though their assets of $1.5 billion were a mere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUTUAL FUNDS: Enjoying the Revolt | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

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