Word: supersalesman
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Theodore Roosevelt Gamble, 33, supersalesman of war bonds. Operator of a chain of Oregon theaters (he managed five when he was 17), he ran the State's war savings staff in 1941, last year was made an assistant to Henry Morgenthau Jr. to run the nation's war bond staffs in the field...
When Sutphin bought the Cleveland franchise in 1934, Cleveland was the only club in the league (then known as the International League) that was financially independent. The others were farms for the members of the rich National League. Sutphin, a glad-hand supersalesman, set out to raise the American League to a big-time standard...
Died. James F. Waters, 46, supersalesman, who sold $10,000,000 worth of streamlined cabs in New York City, $70,000,000 worth of automobiles from coast to coast; of drowning; in his swimming pool in Woodside, Calif. Onetime Air Corps instructor, he became Plymouth-De Soto's greatest distributor, air-commuted between his East and West Coast businesses...
...Army air corps instructor) who went to California to try his hand at selling airplanes, found he was a little ahead of his time. He switched to a two-by-four used-car agency, soon made the happy discovery that there was nothing like the automobile business for a supersalesman in the '205. By 1929 he was Chrysler's distributor for its new De Soto in all of northern California...
...Supersalesman Waters, the taxicab business looked as easy as anything else. After selling an occasional taxicab on the side, he jumped in with both feet in 1936, landed a $3,500,000 order for 2,500 cabs from a new operating system (Sunshine) organized in Manhattan that year. To manufacture them, he contracted with De Soto for chassis and body parts, set up his own assembly plant in Detroit. His De Soto SkyView cab now roams Manhattan streets about 7,000 strong...