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...salesmen never had to sell, and the oldtimers who did are now in executive positions or have retired." The shortage of salesmen is apparent everywhere, from the auto showroom, where a prospective buyer can often spend half an hour without anyone even bothering to take his name, to the smallest counter in a department store. Once upon a time, department-store salesmen used to break into a sprint the minute the elevator door slid open. Now, after more than a decade of mere order-taking and shelf-straightening, many of them wait until called by the floor supervisor. As Manager...
...category which includes almost all the assigned reading for Gen Ed and other required courses, have by far the largest turnover. The library did its best business last fall at the time of the November hour exams, when 3,200 reserved volumes were passed out in one day. The smallest single day's turnover so far this year was early in December when only 951 books crossed the reserve desk. In the month of November 22,000 books went into outside circulation, as compared with 20,000 the previous year. Despite his lack of concern for figures, McNiff displays suitable...
...salmon industry in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska was a booming, $100-million-a-year business. Now it is gasping and dying. Last week salmon fishermen estimated that sales in 1953 will drop to $55 million, and that this year's catch will be the second smallest in 40 years...
...first forecast of disaster came in 1946, when the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service reported that the salmon were disappearing; the catch was less than 4,000,000 cases, the smallest since 1927. This year the pack will drop to 2,800,000 cases, and 27 of the Northwest's 121 canneries have already gone out of business. Furthermore, low-cost tuna has inherited a large part of the market, outselling high-priced salmon...
Perhaps the smallest nuisance to the library is its one non-reading permanent inhabitant--the illegitimate son of the Duke of Monmouth, who is buried directly under the building. When the library was first planned the trustees found that one corner of the contemplated land would encroach on the old Grancry graveyard. Graveyard officials gave permission to dig up the graves until they discovered what illustrious guest they were planning to re-air. This changed everything and the architect had to revise his plans and build a special vault for the Duke's boy to leave him undisturbed...