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...most U.S. citizens nothing could be more British than the toploftical Encyclopaedia Britannica. Yet for more than 20 years the Britannica has been controlled by the world's biggest mail-order house, Chicago's Sears, Roebuck...
...occasion of the move was a strike of Chicago and Philadelphia printers who for the past three weeks refused to work on any printing job any part of which had been or would be worked on by R. R. Donnelley & Sons, which numbers among its customers Montgomery Ward, Sears. Roebuck and TIME Inc. Reason for this refusal on the part of the printers unions is that Donnelley is an "open shop" employing men belonging to independent unions as well as men belonging...
Then he attacked the catalogue of courses. Most State university presidents agree that the worst handicap to education in their universities is the curriculum, a Sears, Roebuck affair that makes little connected sense. Inveighing against this "trade-school" trend in U.S. higher education, President Brandt launched a plan (like the Hutchins plan at the University of Chicago) whereby every Oklahoma undergraduate must complete a two-year course of liberal education before he is allowed to specialize...
Arthur Murray, the Tiffany and Sears, Roebuck of U.S. dance, has almost every kind of pupil in his nationwide chain of 146 dance schools. But the trade of socialites is fast being augmented by the trade of new-rich war workers, who have long listened to the juke-box hit "Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry...
Before the war is over, the biggest, widest-spread chain-store business in the world is likely to be run by the U.S. Army. Last year A. & P. grossed $1,378,000,000, Sears, Roebuck grossed $976,000,000. This year the Army's post exchanges will gross about $350,000,000 (in domestic U.S. alone) and that figure is only a starter...