The Big Squeeze

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Pete Quint’s a fast-thinking, chain-lightning supersalesman, but I still claim it was the liar with the one gall us who gave us our opportunity — or perhaps it was opportunity that gave us the liar.

Pete says it’s only once in a hundred years that opportunity really knocks. Most of the time she’s hiding under the bed, or standing right behind you when you’re beefing about how bad business is.

He says a good salesman never waits for opportunity to knock, anyway, but goes out ringing doorbells. That way he calls on her before she’s ready to start out on her own round of door-knocking.

Pete and I are partners. Right now we’re in Los Angeles looking for lines. We already represent a tire company and a milk-bottle concern, but Pete isn’t satisfied. He wants to be a full-fledged manufacturers’ agent. So we’ve hired salesmen to do the leg work, and the overhead’s eating us up. Good lines are as hard to find as gold mines.

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