GOOD BUSINESS
A story .with authenticity vouched for, is told in a recent issuo of an English journal. The manager of a great firm; was retiring, and it was decided that the present from the staff was to be a wireless set. From each of the- 8000 employees sixpence was collected, making a total of £200. With this sum was bought, at wholesale prices, £200 worth of cigarettes. For the coupons in the cigarette boxes a wireless set was obtained, which the staff presented to the departing manager. Each of the 8000 employees received for the sixpence he subscribed a packet of cigarettes, and the organiser of the presentation got a useful discount for the order which ho gave for the cigarettes.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 103, 4 May 1933, Page 14
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122GOOD BUSINESS Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 103, 4 May 1933, Page 14
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