Word: roebuck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wanted a nice nine-to-five man. A John Citizen." Nevertheless, on Nov. 17, 1934, barely two months after they met, Lady Bird and Lyndon were married in San Antonio by a pastor they had never before met, with a hurriedly purchased $2.50 wedding band from Sears, Roebuck. Next morning Lady Bird stunned Eugenia Lassater with an exuberant phone call: "Lyndon and I committed matrimony last night...
...effort to ensure better profits, the casualty firms have tried to cut their costs by installing computers and setting up drive-in claims offices for on-the-spot settlement designed to eliminate expensive paper work. Sears Roebuck's Allstate, which pioneered many of the innovations, now has 375 such offices. The industry has donated driver-training equipment to many high schools to help slow the rising auto-accident rate and has begun tailoring its policies more closely to fit the risk. Insurance commissions have been besieged by companies seeking rate increases: fortnight ago. New York granted a long-awaited...
...moving beyond purely scientific computers. Its most popular model is its high-speed 3600, a machine that averages $3,000,000 in price, is designed for data processing as well as for scientific problems. The 3600 will be used, for example, by West Germany to forecast weather, by Sears Roebuck to coordinate orders from 1,400 offices, and by Francis I. du Pont & Co. to receive and channel stock orders to specialists...
...built 13% more cars in June than in the same month last year. All those cars sent up demand for gas and oil, buoying the shares of Texaco, Jersey Standard and California Standard. The other significant gainers in the Dow-Jones have been Du Pont, International Harvester and Sears, Roebuck-the latter lifted by the upswing in retail sales since...
Time, Jan. 25, 1963, did a story on an art buying trip to Paris that I made on Sears, Roebuck...