Word: roebuck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles, who used to wait decently until after Thanksgiving before putting up the Christmas decorations and playing scratchy recorded carols, were shamelessly early this year, and report that holiday shopping is off to an unseasonably brisk start. With projections based on income, credit and savings statistics, Sears, Roebuck Vice President Arthur M. Wood expects that retail sales will rise 3% or more in the first half...
farmers should somehow be reduced by one-third during the next five years, Staley noted that one committee member was a Ford executive, another a Sears, Roebuck official. Staley promptly organized demonstrations against both companies. Farmers protested to their bewildered Ford dealers, returned their Sears catalogues by the thousands. In the end, both Ford and Sears issued statements pointing out that the officials had worked on the C.E.D. report as private citizens, not as company representatives...
...large gifts to charity) started work in his father's Glasgow cabinetmaking shop, later set up his own furniture store in London. Picked during the Depression to run Great Universal, he has built it into the largest retailing enterprise outside the U.S.-a British blend of Sears, Roebuck and J. C. Penney that last year netted $34 million on sales of more than $560 million...
...travel business is one of the oldest in merchandising -the mail order catalogue. Available to Montgomery Ward & Co. customers this summer are 500,000 copies of a 66-page, full-color catalogue offering 775 trips-claimed to be the first of its kind in the travel industry. Sears, Roebuck & Co. is offering 18 pages of the magic of far places right along with the band saws and overalls in its current catalogue...
...Other Seven. Though this summer marks its 40th anniversary, State Farm is all but ignoring the fact, instead has its eye firmly fixed on harvests to come. The race to write automobile insurance is more and more a battle between two giants, State Farm and Sears, Roebuck's Allstate. Allstate narrowed the gap in the late 1950s, but State Farm has pulled ahead again recently, last year collected $43 million more in premiums than Allstate. For 1970, State Farm has set a goal of 11 million policyholders. and to achieve it intends to increase its agent force from...