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As for 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SELLING: Meet the Boss | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Arcaro got Blue Hills going again but he finished second behind Pilaster. Said Arcaro: "Maybe I should have carried three peas in my mouth and spit one out each time we went by the stand."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Awful Truth | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

An airborne missionary brought the feverish tale to Fairbanks: a trapper named Clifton Carrol had found gold nuggets "as big as peas" sticking to a fish wheel he was running in the Yukon River, 20 miles below Fort Yukon. The news licked through the town's old log cabins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: Gold Rush | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Man's World. In Blackpool, England, Violet Brindle protested that, in an effort to make her quit her job as a streetcar conductor, her husband had 1) blocked her trolley line by haranguing a crowd about his troubles, 2) burned the skirt of her conductor's uniform, 3...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 18, 1949 | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Suddenly a shotgun muzzle was thrust through the front living room window; the crash of falling glass was drowned out by a double blast. A spray of lead pellets the size of peas ripped Vic Reuther's head and right shoulder-his shattered eyeglasses and his dental bridge flew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shot in the Dark | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

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