Word: done
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed, had done some checking up on Jim's application blank, discovered Jim's little embellishments and charged him with making fraudulent statements. It wasn't that Jim hadn't done a bang-up job all the way. It was just about like Jim Glynn had always figured-no one would believe he could be a big-shot transportation executive without a college degree...
...they gave up when the lawyers pointed out that the Justice Department could issue an injunction restraining them, and nothing could be done about it until the Supreme Court convened again next year. By then the emergency in New York would probably have passed
...room as Henderson spoke were platinum-haired Clem Whitaker and his copper-haired business partner-wife, Leone Baxter, who were hired last February at $100,000 a year to give the medical profession's account of itself to the U.S. public. Whitaker & Baxter reported on what they had done since "the virus of socialized medicine had spread from decadent Europe and taken deep root here...
Never before had Santa Claus worked so hard to give U.S. retailers a merry Christmas. Across the land merchants brought him into their towns, "straight from the North Pole," in sleds, cars and by parachute. By last week, it looked as if Santa had been almost done to death...
...salesmen, Cummings thinks too many of them wander aimlessly in & out of stores, just making calls and taking orders. Cummings thought that salesmen should work harder to expand a grocer's business, and cited an example to show that it could be done. In a Jack Sprat store in Ames, Iowa, he gave a customer a taste of a can of peas, succeeded in selling her an entire case instead of only one can. He persuaded a grocer on Manhattan's Third Avenue to keep a list of daily "specials" next to the telephone so that clerks taking...