Word: stockboy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never pleased himself with the way things were run while he was stockboy, salesman and export man, the new president set out to please everybody he could. Result: stockholders now purr happily over dividends increased 150% over 1932's, management turns sedate somersaults at sales figures, and junior board members chomp joyfully on a special slice of the profits (three weeks' pay in 1945). The loudest cheers naturally come from employes: their work-week is stable, well paid, shorter. Union organizers have long since decided that the McCormick lily neither wants nor needs their gilding...
Small, dark Lewis Judah Ruskin was a drugstore stockboy in Chicago when his father gave him a cryptic warning: "You'll never be successful; ambitious men never are." Lewis shrugged, and set out to become the "General Motors of the drug and cosmetic industries...