Word: roebuck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dual Spur. Sears, Roebuck's Arthur Rosenbaum did not think that war jitters alone account for consumer sluggishness. The unemployment rate remains high, noted Rosenbaum, and there has been a fall-off in the rate of U.S. marriages (down from 9.5 new families per 1,000 population in 1956 to 8.5 last year). Perhaps even more important, consumers are weighed down with near-record installment debt and with record quantities of already purchased durable goods...
Married. Theodore Samuel ("Ted") Williams, 43, longtime Boston Red Sox slugger ("I'm still probably as good a hitter as there is around") turned Sears, Roebuck sales promotion star; and Lee Howard, 36, beauteous, blonde fashion model; both for the second time; in Cambridge, Mass...
...darkness or illuminate an acre of land. The hybrid Longfellow narrative comes out of loudspeakers while the actors pantomime, but even without dialogue, the leading role is so strenuous that fresh Hiawathas are sent in like substitute halfbacks to spell the panting starter. Their hero slays the "wary roebuck," sears the wild West Wind, hunts down "monsters and magicians," wendigoes and kenabeeks. Skillfully J-stroking his canoe back and forth across the great sea water of an old stone quarry, he shoots mighty arrows at serpents made from inner tubes (every time he hits one, it has to be vulcanized...
Some businessmen who support the principle of true interest disclosure dispute the methods proposed by Douglas. Among them is Sears, Roebuck & Co. Chairman Charles Kellstadt, who argues that there is a big difference between an installment-plan sale and a flat loan, and that interest charges are only a "small portion" of the total cost of extending credit (which also includes such expenses as investigations and salaries for credit office staffs). He further contends that computing interest charges on an annual basis for the popular revolving charge accounts would enormously complicate bookkeeping. This, retailers say, would increase the cost...
...suspicious if anything satisfies you right off." After a quick lunch, Mauldin grids his drawingboard work area into nine squares and begins drafting the cartoon, first in pencil and then in ink. A stickler for just the right detail, he frequently consults his favorite reference, the Sears, Roebuck catalogue, or poses before a Polaroid Land camera (with a self-tripping shutter) to get the authentic look of a clenched fist, a tyrant's sneer, a trouser seat viewed from the rear...