Word: roebuck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aura. To take over its top titles of chairman and chief economist, the firm chose James O'Leary, 52, longtime, well regarded research chief of the Life Insurance Association of America. For Edie, which manages funds worth roughly $2 billion and includes the Guggenheim Foundation, R.C.A. and Sears, Roebuck among its clients, the appointment promises a change in manner as well as mind...
...twelve swap funds, the Wall Street firm of Arthur Wiesenberger & Co. found that their average per-share value declined 7% last year v. a 1.2% drop for capital gains-type funds and a 2.8% decline for growth funds. The participants scarcely mind. They range from moguls down to Sears, Roebuck employees retiring with large blocs of stock, and they are mostly interested in postponing that capital-gains bite while diversifying under professional management...
...that order there are many positive points, which you can develop in order to transform it without just destroying it, since there is no new order that you can buy at Sears Roebuck to put in its place. So you have to transform to reform, and not just condemn the whole thing and try to do the whole thing anew again. And in that sense I think there is a strong possibility provided that the new president understands that point. Then we can support him. If he doesn't understand that, we have to organize is very strong opposition movement...
...Instead of spending $27,567.17 to send one Cong to his Maker [Oct. 14], I suggest we hit the guy with a Sears, Roebuck catalogue dropped from a plane with a $200 credit coupon good for anything but firearms. The catch: he would have to come to Saigon to collect his refrigerator. Watching how my Vietnamese go to work on a catalogue, I know it will work...
...field only to F.W. Woolworth & Co., has 930 variety or discount stores (against Woolworth's 3,266). This year Kresge expects to surpass $1 billion in sales for the first time, and its annual sales growth rate of 12.5% is matched among retail chains only by Sears, Roebuck...