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Mail Order Cut. To his 10,000,000 customers President George Bain Everitt of Montgomery, Ward & Co. wrote 10,000,000 letters last week. Gist of the letters was that prices had been cut drastically, time payments would henceforth be allowed on purchases of $25 and over. At once President Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co. told reporters: "Prices in the new autumn catalog of Sears, Roebuck & Co. are the lowest in ten years." Cause: suggested in President Everitt's statement that "we are placing orders for millions of dollars' worth of merchandise at the new low commodity levels...
Mail Order. Rumored and vigorously denied last week: that Sears, Roebuck & Co. will merge with its biggest and bitterest competitor, Montgomery Ward & Co. To tales that Sears, Roebuck's General Robert E. Wood and Montgomery Ward's George Bain Everitt have been engaged in conferences, General Wood stated: "We had luncheon together several times and have discussed certain things of mutual interest, hut if there is any trend toward consolidation I do not know about it." Wall Street cynics read the denial, remarked that a problem of mutual interest must be how to get mail order shares back...
...Corp., a $60,000,000 midwest investment trust. The directorate of the new corporation is of the top stratum of Chicago's financial world. Packers are represented by Edward F. Swift, vice president of Swift & Co., and F. Edson White, president of Armour & Co. Merchants include George B. Everitt, president of Montgomery Ward and James Simpson, president of Marshall Field. The present Marshall Field conducts the investment house, Field, Glore & Co., which financed the issue. Industrialists on the new board include Sewell L. Avery (U. S. Gypsum), Edward F. Carry (Pullman Co.), Robert P. Lament (American Steel Foundries), George...
...South Dakota-born George Bain Everitt was first accountant, then cloak-and-suitman. He went into the Encyclopedia Brittanica Corp., dropped it for the textile business. In 1921 he went to Montgomery Ward, becoming president in 1926. At forty-three he is representative of Chicago's clan of young, debonair, clubmen-executives...