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...challenging roars were not enough, other film-makers were thinking of getting into the record business too. And there were whispers in Chicago that Sears, Roebuck, which only recently has started marketing its own discs through a record-of-the-month club, had a low-priced wire recorder almost ready to go. All platter-makers, including newcomer MGM, were keeping their fingers crossed-and their researchers busy...
...after-Christmas lull, department stores slashed prices as much as 75% on hundreds of items. Examples: in Seattle, Sears, Roebuck sold $9.95 kitchen tables for $1.98; in Philadelphia, Snellenburg's cut prices on men's, suits from $27.50 to $18.71. In many cases even drastic cuts failed to lure buyers. Sellers hoped that the lull was temporary. Buyers hoped that their turn had finally come...
...Chicago paper, Hillman called to get some dope on her assignment, was invited to go along on "a terrific clue that may break the case." It turned out to be some strange pencil scribblings on a package that one of Rice's readers had received from Sears, Roebuck and Co. It was, of course...
...recall from the more leisurely days of thumbing through Sears Roebuck catalogues that women seemed to be wearing daring and glamorous undercostumes during that unregimented postwar era. There were gay primary colors and the whole gamut of pastels. There were novel shapes and patterns. Lace had a place; there were ruffles and embroidery. But that was before...
Among supporters of A.A.: General Robert E. Wood, chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck & Co., once earnest chairman of America First; Lammot du Pont, chairman of the board of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., arch Republican, anti-New Dealer and Liberty Leaguer...