I WAS THERE

Dave Long

Flooring Salesman Detroit, Michigan

man for one of the few companies that manufactured wood blocks used to pave factory floors. The company had been in business since the late 1800s and had been acquired by new owners who reorganized the sales team. Before and during World War II, the company had installed hundreds of square acres of wood block flooring for defense plants all over North America. Many of the facilities were still in use by the Big Three automakers. My sales mission was