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...sold peanuts & popcorn), Jimmy Dobbs had long considered it something of a sideline. His big business has been selling cars. A crack salesman at 26, when he made $13,000 a year, he borrowed $20,000 from his boss and teamed up with a hard-headed engineer, Horace H. Hull, to form a Memphis Ford agency...
...cutting costs to the bone and cutting employees in on profits, Dobbs and Hull made their Ford agency the world's largest (they branched out to eight other cities) and made themselves millionaires. Says Dobbs: "It's all profit sharing. The more your employees make, the more you make yourself." Each month, as soon as enough cash had been taken in to cover overhead, Dobbs told his salesmen to cut profits to $1 a car, if necessary to get sales, because the $1 was all profit...
Bums for Lunch. By 1934, things were going so well that Partners Dobbs and Hull ventured into the food business. But not long after they bought into the Toddle Houses food shops, a Southern restaurant chain, they got in a fight with other directors who opposed their system of employee profit sharing. So Hull and Dobbs set up Toddle-like restaurants in non-Toddle cities...
...competing restaurants near Dobbs Houses and started a price war, Jimmy Dobbs hammered back. He rounded up the smelliest bums he could find and sent them to Toddle Houses to eat during rush hours. By 1941, Toddle Houses had enough. It bought the 46 Dobbs Houses for $500,000. Hull decided to concentrate on car selling (the company will gross more than $50 million this year, net $2,500,000), and Dobbs moved into the airports...
...century, and the Hoosier hayseeds who bred and trained him. On the track Dan cuts a handsome and convincing figure, but the scriptwriter did him wrong by stuffing his feed bag.full of low grade Hollywood corn. Sample: Dan shows up outside the bedroom window of his dying master (Henry Hull) looking as if he were prepared to read the burial service. Equally lugubrious are Dennis O'Keefe, Gail Russell and Ruth Warrick, all of whom are required by the formula plot to get badly entangled in their own emotional traces...