December 30, 2011

This free booklet will tell you how you can become a Computer Programmer (Feb, 1969)

This free booklet will tell you how you can become a Computer Programmer

…and how you can train at home for big earnings in the world’s newest, most exciting profession.

50,000 more programmers needed now! 500,000 more will be needed in a few years!

If you’re dissatisfied with your present job, why don’t you become a programmer? So great is the demand for programmers, you’ll have your choice of openings, with a growing future ahead.

For the vast majority of good positions, a high school education, a logical mind and the right preparation are all that are required. LaSalle, world leader in home education, will train you as a programmer in your spare time.
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December 12, 2011

THERE’S MONEY TODAY IN ART (Aug, 1932)

THERE’S MONEY TODAY IN ART

THIS is the day of the artist. His skill is sought wherever design and color are important factors in the sale of merchandise.

Furniture, rugs, wall hangings, household utensils, wearing apparel, jewelry, art gifts, lamps, automobiles — nearly everything sold today depends, on design and color to attract the eye of the purchaser. Drawings for advertisements in newspapers, magazines, catalogs, folders, posters, display cards and many other media call for the skill of the modern artist. Consider the number of drawings in this magazine alone! Art is a necessity in modern business. Read the rest of this entry »

June 30, 2011

EARN BIG PAY IN AN EXCITING CAREER AS A Stenotype Operator (Nov, 1965)

EARN BIG PAY IN AN EXCITING CAREER!

Put yourself in the center of important events. Learn at home to become a

Stenotype Operator (MACHINE SHORTHAND)

Easy to learn even if you’ve never taken shorthand before!
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June 2, 2011

LAW – Study at home (Jun, 1935)

Would that be British law? Does it come with a free wig?

LAW – Study at home

Legally trained men win high positions and big success in business and public life. Be independent. Greater opportunities now than ever before. Big corporations are headed by men with legal training.

We guide you step by step. You can train at home during spare time. Degree of LL. B. conferred. Successful graduates in every section of U.S. We furnish all text material, including fourteen-volume Law Library. Low cost, easy terms. Get our valuable 64-page “Law Guide” and “Evidence” books free. Send for them NOW.

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he World’s Largest Business Training Institution
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January 12, 2011

How to CRACK the education barrier (May, 1956)

How to CRACK the education barrier

Is there an “education barrier” between you and promotion? Are young college graduates being brought in to fill positions above you?

You can break down that barrier . . . gain real security, responsibility, prestige . . . surprise fellow employees and win their respect. You can match yourself against the smartest of the college boys and come out a WINNER. Here’s how!
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November 9, 2010

Do Your Friends Feel Sorry for Your Wife? (Dec, 1929)

That’s pretty brutal.

Do Your Friends Feel Sorry for Your Wife?

Like it or not, your friends and neighbors size you up by what you EARN —judged by your home and family. Why not surprise them by making good in a big way? Tell them nothing, but on the quiet fit yourself for a bigger place!

ONLY a woman knows how much a wife can suffer when her husband fails to “make the grade”— When she dreads to meet her old school friends—when she skimps on her own appearance “so John can make a good showing at the office”—when she can’t give her children things as good as the other children have, and they ask her why. Read the rest of this entry »

August 30, 2010

Are you a guy who didn’t MARRY THE BOSS’S DAUGHTER? (Jan, 1959)

Are you a guy who didn’t MARRY THE BOSS’S DAUGHTER?

They tell us it’s a good way to get ahead. The tough part is . . . there aren’t enough bosses’ daughters to go around. But there’s another way to call your shots.
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January 31, 2009

Thomas Foster’s School By Mail (Sep, 1953)

Thomas Foster’s School By Mail

By Alfred Lief

COAL mine accidents in the 1880′s prompted a Pennsylvania editor, Thomas Jefferson Foster, to crusade for safety laws. In his paper he ran question -and-answer columns for miners which proved so popular he later compiled them into a free handbook. But it seemed to him that the message he had to tell should be conveyed to his readers in a more systematic way. Read the rest of this entry »

December 7, 2008

What’s ahead? (Jan, 1947)

What’s ahead?

A world of rapid changes and new economic problems, that’s certain. Just as surely, however, there’s one thing that will be unchanged. In the near future and the long future, the important positions will be held by trained men.

You want security for your family… freedom from financial worry … your own home . . . perhaps your own business. The surest route to them is specialized training that pays out in promotions and increased income.
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July 1, 2008

are you SUFFERING from HIDDEN TALENTS? (Mar, 1950)

are you SUFFERING from HIDDEN TALENTS?

Do other people’s successes make you feel unimportant? It may be that you’ve never given yourself a chance. Almost everyone has hidden talents which, when fully developed, open up new and challenging opportunities.
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January 2, 2008

DON’T be a subordinate all your life (Dec, 1936)

DON’T be a subordinate all your life

You live only once—make the most of that life! Be happy in your personal life — be successful in your business life. Don’t be content merely to curse the fates that keep you in a subordinate’s place. Kick these fates out of your life. The first healthy step toward doing it is to mail this coupon to the International Correspondence Schools. This institution can give you the training it takes to get ahead these days.

INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS

January 15, 2007

Snap out of it! The depression’s over (Jul, 1936)

Whoops! Not quite. In the year following the publication of this ad the unemployment rate in the U.S. went from 14.3% to 19%.

Snap out of it! The depression’s over

The question is, are you over the depression? Tough? You bet it was — it was the toughest depression this country ever had. But listen: The future is the brightest that ever beckoned a man. Opportunity calls from every side — calls to ambitious and trained men! If you have the ambition, the International Correspondence Schools can supply the training. Get going! Snap out of it! Hurry this coupon along to Scranton.

INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS
BOX 5621-H, SCRANTON, PENNA.

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