traveling salesman

At its heart is Jack, a traveling salesman played by Billy Crudup who sells condos on the moon — sorry, “lunar residencies” — to those disappointed with life on Earth.

Yes, Yankovic did acquire his first accordion from a traveling salesman.

His father was a traveling salesman who later worked for Kellogg’s, and his mother was a homemaker.

So to use gendered language, scheduling is the classic “traveling salesman” problem—how do you optimize a bunch of different “stops” to form a route?

Thus, the idea of the traveling salesman Hill swindling the locals into investing in a boys’ marching band, with the intent of skipping town before teaching them a note, held up as well.