Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unabashed lover of tall tales and hard riding, Author Otero remembers seeing a herd of buffalo so large that it was still in sight after a day's train ride. He saw a great part of the West's liquor supply tied up when the Whiskey Ring fraud exposures led to government seizure of his father's liquor stores. He went on the famed buffalo hunt of Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, when the special escort, commanded by Generals Sheridan and Custer, included the West's most distinguished plainsmen. A master of understatement, Author Otero barely...
...slow-witted subway motorman goes to pieces at his fear of conscription, is saved by running away with his train...
...second city of the land; it is the biggest wholesale house in the Midwest. And the Merchandise Express was purely wholesaling promotion. Air conditioned cars were leased from Baltimore & Ohio R.R., stripped of seats, fitted up as modernistic display rooms. Forward was a dormitory car for the train crew; in the rear were a dining car, two Pullmans and an office car with desks, typewriters, reception room, service...
...first stop in Peoria more than 400 retailers boarded the train, some having motored a hundred miles from little farming communities in the surrounding territory. Some brought their wives & children. Big Peoria stores deployed their sales employes through the train in squads of ten to pick up new ideas. And over highballs and buffet snacks the Merchandise Express staff sold $20,000 worth of goods in two days...
Even in St. Louis, Chicago's traditional rival for leadership of the Mississippi Valley wholesale trade, buyers swarmed aboard before the staff had finished breakfast. As soon as the train was on siding at each stop telephones were hooked up with local exchanges so that customers and prospects could be invited aboard. A teletype in the office car clicked out rush orders direct to Chicago. Marshall Field's divulged no official sales figure but newsmen who accompanied the expedition estimated sales for the first seven days of the trip...