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Such constant pressure from home and office is bound to take its toll on even the strongest salesman. Many firms have learned that for best results incentive programs cannot be pushed constantly. Says Emmett H. Heitler, general manager of Denver's Shwayder Bros., Inc., makers of Samsonite luggage: "We don't have incentive programs more than twice a year because we don't want our men under the gun too often." "You can carry this business of pounding away at a salesman too far," says Republic Steel's General Sales Manager L. S. Hamaker...
...Canadian and U.S. committees assigned to recommend a toll policy for the St. Lawrence Seaway last week plumped for low tolls aimed at attracting a high volume of traffic to the new deepwater channels when they open next year. Hearings on the toll rates will open in Ottawa and Washington in August; if both the U.S. and Canadian governments approve the rates as recommended, it will usually cost shipowners less in tolls to move their vessels the 369 miles from Montreal to Lake Erie than to go through the Panama or Suez Canals...
Because of its greater outlays in seaway construction, the Canadian seaway agency will retain 71% of all tolls for the St. Lawrence River; the U.S. will get 29%. The toll committees estimated that the rate structure they recommended will meet all operating costs of the seaway, pay off construction costs over a 50-year period...
Late-season injuries have taken their toll on the Crimson lineup. Centerfielder John Getch suffered a badly sprained ankle sliding into third in the Dartmouth game and will be unable to play again this spring. Kent Hathaway will probably move to center in his place, with Mo Balboni filling in at right field...
...Plans to spend $2.2 billion to add 2,000,000 new phones this year, add facilities to handle 130 million additional toll calls annually...