Word: roebuck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back home in Portland, Ore. have long ago given up trying to figure Baker out. His father left home when Terry was seven, and he was raised by his mother, who put two other sons through college by working as a Teamster on the loading platform of a Sears, Roebuck store. In high school Baker was almost too good to be true. He was an A student. As a high-scoring forward, he took his basketball team to two city championships. Throwing with his right arm, he pitched his baseball team to victory in the state finals. Passing with...
What would be Castro's next move? He could 1) make a formal demand, perhaps through the World Court, that the U.S. evacuate the Guantanamo Naval Base (which last week beefed up its Marine contingent); 2) confiscate the remaining $250 million in U.S. businesses, including branches of Sears, Roebuck and Woolworth, Westinghouse and General Electric; 3) break off diplomatic relations entirely; 4) stage an "incident" to prove U.S. aggression. At week's end the U.S. sent a curt note to Havana protesting that five Castro airforce planes were being painted over with U.S. insignia at San Antonio...
...many, the current business slowdown is really an adjustment to the consumer's growing predilection for the myriad new services his money can buy. "This causes dislocations within the economy," explains Sears, Roebuck Chairman Charles H. Kellstadt, "but given the level of gross national product and disposable income, it is no cause for alarm. It simply reflects the fact that our rising standard of living has made us a predominantly consumer-oriented economy. It is not a case of not growing, but of growing in a new direction." In the past five years the real output of services...
...Allstate's Chicago branch, opened with an all-out advertising barrage last spring, was also ordered closed last week for operating without a city license. The firm has no connection with Allstate Insurance, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sears, Roebuck...
...competitors. Prices have been cut an average 7.8% below those in the last catalogue. Portable typewriters have been slashed from $119.50 to $107.75, electric shavers from $20.57 to $17.95, some bicycles from $32.95 to $29.88. Bigger cuts have been made in toys. Said an excited executive of competing Sears, Roebuck, which immediately rushed out a lower-priced supplement to its Yule catalogue: "They're giving the business away...