 Unusually for the era, salesmen for NSS were paid employees of the company rather than independent contractors.Following World War II in 1945, the founders mortgaged their personal property and stretched the company's credit line to offer approximately 80 percent of their salesmen (returning veterans) no-interest financing for cars and down payments to buy homes.This drove the company into the red and the bank canceled its line of credit, but Rothgeb and Reinecker persevered.