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This book is like an evening of mellow talk over bourbon and water. Its author, who once wrote a bestseller about the Sears-Roebuck catalogue, was born and raised in the Mississippi Delta country he writes about. Instead of a serious study of the cotton economy and the problem of race relations, he has reported loquaciously, and with the leisurely humor of an old-school Mississippian, on the moods and customs of Delta society...
...Acting as the front man of a national MacArthur organization last week was a Chicagoan named Warren Wright, onetime Illinois State Treasurer, long a GOParty hack. The two men who chiefly told Wright what to do and what not to do were 1) General Robert E. Wood (retired), Sears, Roebuck & Co. chairman; 2) Edward A. Hayes, onetime American Legion national commander. Other MacArthur strategists: Hanford MacNider, also a onetime Legion national commander; Pennsylvania's Congressman James Van Zandt, onetime commander-in-chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars; Nebraska's Congressman Arthur L. Miller; Alfred O'Gara...
Today Standard Oil of Ohio will set up one-day headquarters in the Placement Office. Procter and Gamble, Sylvania Elective. National City Bank, Sears Roebuck, American Telephone and Telegraph, and the U. S. Trust Company will take the stand later...
Businessmen read the results of S.R.I.'s survey with interest. Ex-professor (University of Chicago) Burleigh Gardner, head of S.R.I., had already won the confidence of such business clients as Sears, Roebuck, United Air Lines, General Mills and International Harvester by his skill in testing group reactions to advertising, selling and personnel programs...
...Price- Closing Earning Earnings Stock Price per Share Ratio American Can $78¼ $8 9.8 American Smelting 51½ 12 4.3 Chrysler 58¼ 7.50 7.8 General Motors 51¼ 6.70 8.1 Goodyear Tire 42 12 3.5 Loew's Inc. 16¼ 2.75 5.9 Sears, Roebuck 34⅛ 4.75 7.2 Standard Oil (N.J.) 70 10 7 Texas Co. 54½ 7.50 7.3 U.S. Steel 73½ 12.50 5.9 Westinghouse...