Word: supersalesman
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...into a New Haven, Conn., wire mill as a common laborer. But he was alert, had already begun consciously to train his now superb memory, studied night and day, and in 14 months was rated a mechanic; by 21 he was foreman over 300 men; at 30 a master supersalesman and general manager of the important Pittsburgh Wire Co. of Braddock, Pa. He knew more about the mining, the processing and the utilization of steel than nine-tenths of his customers, to whom he sold intelligently and helpfully...