Word: roebuck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Supreme Court's unanimous ruling was based on a conflict between Sears, Roebuck and Chicago's Stiffel Co., the originator of the pole lamp. Stiff el's sales sagged after Sears, in 1957, brought out an identical pole lamp that sold for about half the price; the company took the matter to court. A federal court found Sears guilty of unfair competition, not because of a patent infringement but under an Illinois common law that forbids exact copying of another's goods. In fact, ruled the court, Stiffel's pole lamp was not really unique...
...When I came here four years ago," says William O. Kelleher, president of Sears, Roebuck in Brazil, "we were selling a 7-cu.-ft. refrigerator for 49,000 cruzeiros. Today that same refrigerator sells for 227,000." Coca-Cola raised its prices three times in 1963. General Electric writes a clause into its sales contracts that allows for adjustments in the delivery price to compensate for inflation, and IBM does the same in its computer-rental contracts...
...understandable awe, the chairman of one large competitor calls it "the greatest organization since the church was founded by St. Paul." Adds the more mundane chief of another rival: "It is the General Motors of the industry. I sometimes feel like Studebaker." The object of such admiration is Sears, Roebuck and Co. Although it ranks second to the A. & P. among all U.S. merchandisers, Sears is the best-managed and most profitable of the nation's retailers. And it never seems to stop growing. Next week, reporting on fiscal 1963, Sears will announce that for the first time...
...haunts seem like a meeting of mah-jongg players. Ben Johnson's voluptuaries are in the pink, Mel Ramos trots out jungle queens in tiger-skin bikinis, Marjorie Strider shows paintings that project into the 36-Dimension, and Herb Hazelton delights in garish girdles from the Sears, Roebuck catalogue. Andy Warhol's Blue Girlie (9 ft. by 6 ft.) has a room all to herself, not out of modesty but because she only comes out in ultraviolet light. Through...
Viva Fidel! Led by men wearing red T shirts and howling Viva Fidel!, raging mobs set fire to the Braniff and Pan American Airways buildings, the Sears Roebuck store and a Goodyear Rubber plant. The USIS office was destroyed. In the city of Colón, 38 miles away, another well-coordinated riot erupted. Along the border, Zone police tried to disperse the crowds with tear gas, fired in the air, at last lowered their aim. General Andrew P. O'Meara, commander of the U.S. Southern Command, sent Army troops to the border. Snipers from the Panamanian side started...