Word: roebuck
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...letters supporting his stand. San Francisco as well as neighboring Marin County passed a registration ordinance. In Chicago, a voluntary turn-in campaign has prompted the surrender of 75 guns a day. Florida's Jordan Marsh and Burdine's chains quit selling toy guns, while Sears, Roebuck, the world's largest retailer, stopped advertising weapons as well as children's "toys of violence." A surprising exception to the mood of reevaluation; Presidential Candidate Eugene McCarthy, who insists that controls are a state rather than a federal matter because of widely varying conditions, and who warned against...
...rebuke to violence, 1,000 New York schoolchildren turned a mound of toy guns and comics?including Superman and Combat?over to trash collectors. Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward stopped mail-order gun sales after King's assassination; Macy's, Alexander's and Abraham & Straus in New York had quit selling guns even before that. Last week Ohio's J-Mart discount stores gave their entire $20,000 inventory of guns to the Columbus police...
...other-than-industrial categories, the leaders were unchanged. Bank of America is still the nation's biggest bank; Prudential, by a whisker ($511,000 higher assets) over Metropolitan Life, is still the biggest insurance company. Sears, Roebuck is far and away the biggest merchandiser, Penn Central the biggest transportation company, and A.T. & T. by much more than whiskers the biggest utility. (A.T. & T., were its revenues considered as sales, would stand third if it were included among the industrials...
...from what we say it is in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution," says Alan S. Traugott, 44, of Glen Ellyn, Ill., a white suburb west of Chicago. In March, this conviction led Traugott to resign his five-figure income and position as manager of the Sears, Roebuck store in Englewood, a Chicago neighborhood that is predominantly black. Now jobless, he intends to dedicate himself full time, in any way he can, to brotherhood between the black and white communities...
When he left Montgomery Ward to join its more or less moribund mail order rival, Sears, Roebuck & Co., as vice president 44 years ago, General Robert Elkington Wood brought with him a long catalogue of eccentricities...