Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week when Denise, along with other lucky French youngsters who had passed their bac, went job hunting, they would find the "slip of paper" still rated special consideration...
...four weeks to come, Met-goers would get to see eleven more ballets made in England. And before the Sadler's Wells troupe went back to London, eight other U.S. and Canadian cities would get to see them...
Chuck Luckman, no man to tip his hand to real estate speculators, went about his project with as much secrecy as if he were making atom bombs out of soap chips. He set up several dummy corporations in New York, Boston and Chicago which began negotiating for parcels of Manhattan land like so many independent operators. The dummy corporations hired ten sets of lawyers, several banks and a covey of real estate scouts, none of whom were told that they were all working for Lever or even the same company. Lever executives who masterminded the deals used 20 unlisted phones...
...vanguard. To fill employees in on New York, Lever's prepared an 80-page guidebook on how and why the move was being made and crammed with shopping tips, subway maps, bus routes and commutation times and fares from the suburbs. Even the printing of this book went on in cloak & dagger fashion. Up until press time, no words which might tip things off appeared in the text (dummy phrases were substituted). At the last moment, the correct words were inserted, said Lever breathlessly, by "a single trusted typesetter...
...sagging refrigerator sales this summer, Joske's of Texas, a subsidiary of Allied Stores in San Antonio, went back to old-fashioned selling methods. Sales Promotion Vice President Jim Keenan plugged Frigidaires in splashy newspaper ads, cut out down payments and sent his 80 salesmen out to ring doorbells. Some used the old trick of following an ice wagon down the street to find householders still using iceboxes. One man stayed out so many nights selling that he finally decided to take his wife along: she talked to housewives while he cornered the husbands...