Word: pedlar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago Frank R. Coutant, director of research for the advertising agency of Pedlar & Ryan, Inc., estimated that even though use of market research has jumped 50% in the last three years, U. S. industry is spending a mere $4,500,000 a year for it. (Estimated expenditure for engineering research: $300,000,000.) Only a handful of the biggest U. S. companies indulge in market research to an appreciable extent* and of these General Motors makes the biggest splash, spending something less than $500,000 a year for the purpose...
...Louisa May Alcott, a friend of Emerson, one of the least coherent of the Transcendentalists, a slightly daffy but harmless mystic. Glimpses of Alcott in Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England exploded these literary myths. Odell Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Alcott, Pedlar's Progress, gave further proof of their injustice. This week the publication of long sections from Alcott's journals clears up any remaining doubts about Alcott's importance...
Biography. The award for distinguished U. S. biography was divided between: Odell Shepard for Pedlar's Progress, The Life of Bronson Alcott (TIME, May 10), $300, and former Pulitzer Prizewinner Marquis James for his two volumes on Andrew Jackson (TIME, April...
When Van Wyck Brooks called the period of Hawthorne, Emerson and Bronson Alcott the flowering of New England, he did not use the phrase for its warm, poetic savor. Not only in Brooks's book but in lesser works like Odell Shepard's Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Branson Alcott, readers can catch whiffs of a morning freshness in the cultural air, when poets and novelists no less than practical citizens took on themselves lifetime projects, came back to work unshaken after personal tragedy or public disgrace...
...Alcott had a good old-fashioned pastoral upbringing but little school. His immortal longings were not bounded by the farm's horizon: he was determined to better not only himself but the world. At 19 he left home to find himself and make his fortune, went as a pedlar of Yankee notions into the South. The hospitable Southerners took him in, taught him manners, lent him books. Commercially, his trips were a signal failure: when he stopped peddling to take up schoolteaching he owed his hard-pressed father $600. But he had learned more than any college could have...