Word: roebuck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...list prices mean little in discount houses, and even retail outlets have begun to crack color TV's long-held "$400 barrier." Sears, Roebuck recently reduced its 21-in. Silvertone sets from $449 to $388 and is selling them for as low as $365 in the hotly competitive Buffalo area. So far this year, Admiral has cut some prices by $95 (to a low of $399.95) and trimmed its charge for a year's service on color sets from $100 to $69.95, while quality-conscious Zenith has pared its lowest prices...
Everything but Selling. While it has adopted many of the practices of Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward, Quelle has tried to go them one better in one area: automation. With 135,000 orders often pouring in in a single day, German efficiency was called upon to prevent chaos. Quelle set up the largest commercial data-processing installation of its kind in the world. For each incoming order, it determines in a few thousandths of a second if the item is available, computes the total price and shipping charge, prints instructions to the warehouse, and readjusts inventory. Quelle also installed...
...violence confined to the university grounds. The student terrorist organization is closely linked to the FALN (Armed Front for National Liberation), which in the last six months has destroyed an oil refinery, burned a Sears Roebuck warehouse, plundered an exhibition of Van Gogh and Cezanne paintings, hijacked the freighter Anzoategul, and performed numerous other acts of violence...
...films and a collector for 30 years. The short sports coat was Harry Sundheim Jr., a Chicago businessman and also a collector. The dark suit was Lester Salkow, a Los Angeles theatrical agent who is Price's business manager. The three were buying original art for Sears, Roebuck, which will sell it to the public along with snow removers, Oxford cloth shirts, storm windows and mink coats...
...mightily from the current fashion for knitted goods. In electronics. Singer has a subsidiary called HRB-Singer, Inc., which does military research and development, and another called Singer Metrics, which makes spectrum analyzers and other microwave equipment. Other Singer subsidiaries manufacture carpetmaking machines, even sell power tools to Sears, Roebuck. Such side efforts in 1962 accounted for 20% of the company's estimated $640 million in sales...