Salesman Training: "Man to Man" 1947 Remington Arms Co. & Peters Cartridge Division

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more at http://money.quickfound.net/ 'INSTRUCTION IN SALESMANSHIP, PRESENTED FROM THE STANDPOINT OF ONE MAN'S EXPERIENCE. Salesman points to easel with these signs: "Don't Sell the Steak; Sell the Sizzle." "Don't Write: Telegraph." "Say it with Flowers." "Don't Ask If, Ask Which." "Watch Your Bark." Voiceover/Dialogue: "In firearms, it's [the thing which attracts the customer] the lifetime of fun a customer will get shooting a precision-made gun." "Always been a rabbit man myself Bill, thought I might like to shoot ducks for a change. What do you recommend? Well, if you're after ducks, I'd recommend a 12 gauge, full-choke gun with a 30-inch barrel. . . Here's a precision made gun that will give you a lifetime of shooting fun Mr. Jackson. . . The kind of gun that well gives you a real thrill to shoot. . . .Lets you reach right out where you can get 'em. . . . I've got a shell here that gets there hard and fast with a perfect pattern every time." many brochures; many trade magazines; strange wake-up scene with smoky effects ' Public domain film from the Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remington_Arms Remington Arms Company, LLC is a manufacturer of firearms and ammunition in the United States. It was founded in 1816 by Eliphalet Remington in Ilion, New York, as E. Remington and Sons. It is one of the oldest companies in the United States... and is the largest U.S. producer of shotguns and rifles... Since 2007, Remington Arms is part of the Freedom Group, which is owned by Cerberus Capital Management. Remington built a new plant in Huntsville, Alabama which is now building the AR platform rifles and 1911 style R-1 pistols... The Remington company was founded in 1816. Eliphalet Remington II believed he could build a better gun than he could buy... Remington began designing and building a flintlock rifle for himself. In the fall of that year, he entered a shooting match; though he only finished second, his well-made gun impressed other shooters. Before Remington left the field that day, he had received so many orders from other competitors that he was now officially in the gunsmithing business... On March 7, 1888, ownership of E. Remington & Sons left possession of the Remington family and was sold to new owners, Marcus Hartley and Partners. This consisted of Hartley and Graham of New York, New York, a major sporting goods chain who also owned the Union Metallic Cartridge Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and the Winchester Repeating Arms Company of New Haven, Connecticut. At this time the name was formally changed to the Remington Arms Company... During the Great Depression, Remington was purchased by the DuPont Corporation, which had made its fortune with improvements to gunpowder. A year later, Remington purchased the Peters Cartridge Company; today, many of the Remington headstamps still have R-P on them for Remington-Peters... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peters_Cartridge_Company The Peters Cartridge Company was a company in Kings Mills, Ohio that specialized in gunpowder and ammunition production... History Joseph Warren King purchased the Austin & Carleton powder mill on the Little Miami River in 1855 and expanded it as the Miami Powder Company including the company town of Goes Station, Ohio. King sold the Miami Powder Company in 1877 to build the Great Western Powder Works with the company town of Kings Mills at a more favorable hydropower location downstream of Goes Station. A wooden dam diverted water into a power canal through the gorge in a narrow valley between steep adjacent hills. Manufacturing facilities were dispersed along the 2-mile (3.2 km) power canal to minimize damage during infrequent explosions. King's son-in-law Gershom Moore Peters began working at the powder mill in 1881 and became president of the powder company when King died in 1885. Peters formed the Peters Cartridge Company at Kings Mills in 1887. Machinery was manufacturing four-thousand cartridges per hour by 1889... Remington Arms purchased the Peters Cartridge Company in 1934... Production of military ammunition ended in March 1944, and Remington sold the Kings Mills factory to Columbia Records. Columbia manufactured phonograph records at Kings Mills until 1949... The site was listed as a Superfund National Priorities List site by the Environmental Protection Agency in April 2012 for copper, lead and mercury soil contamination...