Word: learn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...door-to-door, later directed ad campaigns for such products as Dreft, Drene, and Duz, which he made bestsellers. As president, he still likes the person-to-person approach, will talk soap to his wife's bridge party guests, or to anybody he meets at any time to learn what customers are thinking. Says he: "It's the housewife who buys our product. We'll play it any way she wants to play...
...Donald Kirk David, 54, dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration, was elected a director of the Ford Motor Co., the first time in Ford's history that a non-company man has appeared on the board. Henry Ford II thinks the company can learn something from Sales Expert David, who was president of American Maize-Products Co. from 1932 to 1941, is already on the board of the Ford Foundation, which owns 82% of Ford Motor Co. stock. For his part, Dean David expects that his Ford experience will provide him with good classroom material...
...listener can learn quite a hunk of truth about America and its hopes-and about the poetry of Kansas City-from this passage. He can also learn quite a lot of nonsense from some recent French broadcasts (generally, the French desk is one of the Voice's best) which tried to show that Americans are really very cultured. The French Voice recently remarked in dead earnest, upon the publication in the U.S. of a new book on Marcel Proust: "In the subway and on buses, you constantly meet workers and employees, men and women, on their...
...plan three different curriculums. There was a five-year course for 14-to 16-year-old beginners, many of whom will be trained for work as truck drivers, straw bosses and cannery workers. There was an eight-year course for the ten-year-olds, who will have time to learn to be tailors, mechanics, etc. For the youngest pupils there was a full-fledged public-school program...
Among the first to learn of the menace of Russian Communism were the old-line Socialists. During the years when other left-wingers joined the admiring liberals in praise of Soviet Russia, the old-fashioned...