Word: sprat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...salesmen, Cummings thinks too many of them wander aimlessly in & out of stores, just making calls and taking orders. Cummings thought that salesmen should work harder to expand a grocer's business, and cited an example to show that it could be done. In a Jack Sprat store in Ames, Iowa, he gave a customer a taste of a can of peas, succeeded in selling her an entire case instead of only one can. He persuaded a grocer on Manhattan's Third Avenue to keep a list of daily "specials" next to the telephone so that clerks taking...
...Sprat Spat. In Washington, Mr. & Mrs. John Wesley sat down to their first roast pork in weeks, quarreled over who should get the first slice, had at each other with carving knives, ended up in the hospital...