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...first test of any job is, of course, the standing and reputation of the concern. If a firm has been doing business over a period of years; if it is sound; if it enjoys a good reputation, preferably if it is nationally known, or at least is familiar to the people who are its legitimate prospects; if it has for some years been putting out satisfactory products, it meets this first test...
...second test I have called the policy question. If an established concern has been selling over a period of years in a particular manner, or to a particular group of consumers: has sold successfully, and has employed salesmen who have enjoyed prosperity during their employment, the job, moos with the second test. If a concern has been marketing through the retail trade and suddenly decides that it is going after its prospects on a direct consumer basis the success of that venture is problematical. If a concern that is little known is trying to market, its products direct...
...third test is one which may be called consumer value and consumer utility. It will probably be true that if an established, well-rated concern has been selling over a period of years to a market which has favorably reacted to the presentation of its goods, that those same goods will offer a high degree of consumer value and utility, otherwise they would not have endured. This test, however, must be made. The goods that are offered must be offered at a fair price, and by a fair price I mean one that is not inconsistent with the value which...
Banker Dillon studied the men before him, noted their eager intelligence regarding retail selling. An idea came to him and with characteristic quickness he expressed it: Let these dealers be represented on the Board of Directors of this concern. Let two of them be chosen at once. Next year let two others replace them...
...told a CRIMSON reporter last night. "The caissons on which the foundations were set, have settled, so that serious damage would undoubtedly occur to the building unless elaborate reconstruetions were undertaken. The Lampoon editors, however, feel that the cost of such alterations would be prohibitive." Mr. Hartley expressed his concern at the possibility of the entire building, which he calls "the most attractive in Cambridge", being doomed to destruction...