what jobs did ben franklin do?
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 His most productive major league season came in 1941 , when he played a full season with the Phillies . He posted career @-@ highs in home runs ( 3 ) , RBIs ( 27 ) , runs scored ( 47 ) , hits ( 113 ) , doubles ( 20 ) , triples ( 7 ) , stolen bases ( 17 ) and games played ( 129 ) . In a game against the New York Giants on June 28 , Benjamin singled to bring home the game @-@ winning run in bottom of the 12th inning . On July 1 , he again produced a game @-@ winning single , this time in the bottom of the tenth inning , defeating the Brooklyn Dodgers . He began the 1942 season with the Phillies and batted .224 in 78 games before being sold , on August 5 , to the Louisville Colonels , a Class AA American Association affiliate of the Boston Red Sox . 

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 After Armstrong retired from NASA in 1971 , he acted as a spokesman for several businesses . The first company to successfully approach him was Chrysler , for whom he appeared in advertising starting in January 1979 . Armstrong thought they had a strong engineering division , plus they were in financial difficulty . He later acted as a spokesman for other companies , including General Time Corporation and the Bankers Association of America . He acted as a spokesman for U.S. businesses only . 

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 Immediately after Ben Silverman was named co @-@ chairman of NBC 's entertainment division in 2007 , he asked Greg Daniels to create a spin @-@ off of The Office , the half @-@ hour comedy Daniels adapted from the British comedy of the same name , created by Ricky Gervais . Daniels co @-@ created Parks and Recreation with Michael Schur , who had been a writer on The Office . Like Daniels , Schur had previously worked on the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live . The two spent months considering ideas for the new series and debating whether to make it a stand @-@ alone show rather than a spin @-@ off . According to Daniels , they eventually abandoned the original spin @-@ off plan because they " couldn 't find the right fit " . They considered a series about a local government official trying to rebuild a political career following a humiliating public spectacle , but ultimately abandoned the idea . However , it was ultimately incorporated into the backstory for Ben Wyatt , the character played by Adam Scott who was added late in the second season . 

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 " Ben Franklin " was the second episode of the series directed by Randall Einhorn . Einhorn had previously directed " Initiation " , as well as the summer spin @-@ off webisodes " The Accountants " . " Ben Franklin " was written by Mindy Kaling , who acts on the show as customer service representative Kelly Kapoor . The episode was the sixth of the series written by Kaling . 

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 " Ben Franklin " received 5 @.@ 0 / 13 in the ages 18 – 49 demographic of the Nielsen ratings . This means that five percent of all households with an 18- to 49 @-@ year @-@ old living in it watched the episode , and 13 percent had their television tuned to the channel at any point . The episode was watched by an estimated audience of 10 @.@ 1 million viewers . " Ben Franklin " is one of only a handful of other episodes of The Office to reach over 10 million viewers , the others being the show 's pilot episode , " The Injury , " " Traveling Salesmen , " " The Return , " and " Stress Relief , " of which the latter reached over 20 million viewers . 
