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Changed Hours. Meanwhile the stores jam through one operation change after another. To take care of war workers and extra-busy housewives, most stores stay open until 9 or 10 one or two nights a week. To offset the transportation pinch a Sears, Roebuck outlet in Sacramento started a free bus service-a sales-getting scheme used for years in outlying Brooklyn districts. And counter revolutions go on endlessly: jams & jellies on the toilet-goods counter; dinnerware in the outlawed electrical-goods department; blackout accessories on the once-busy hosiery counter...
Back to the grinding struggle, after a week's rest in the Adirondacks, went Donald Nelson, the patient, plodding ex-Sears, Roebuck vice president now under fire for failing to be Production Boss in fact as well as in title. He had gone away dog-tired, his nerves deckle-edged, and almost willing to give in and give up. Now the weary wrinkles had left his brown eyes; the sag was gone from his padded cheeks; he was as fighting mad as a peaceable man can get. His friends in WPB passed word around: a new Nelson had returned...
...work with a staff of efficiency engineers, reorganized the company from basement to smokestack. He built up a glib-tongued sales staff, put zip into a faltering aviation-engine division, concentrated all operations in the Muskegon plant, slashed monthly operating expenses $75,000. Soon bigtime customers like Sears, Roebuck, J. I. Case and Checker Cab came back into the fold. In 1940, sales rose 50% to $10,908,000 and the company earned $612,000 v. the preceding year's $215,000 deficit...
Individual issues did even better. In five trading days last week Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rose 4⅞; Sears, Roebuck 3⅛ American Telephone 3; Atlantic Coast Line 2; and General Motors...
...conventional figure in rug designs, from Shiraz to Sears, Roebuck, is the tadpole-shaped fistprint of a moppet. This-according to Persian legend-is why: a rugmaker one day reprimanded his infant son for playing recklessly among his dye pots. The child, incensed, brought down his dripping little fist on a nearby rug. Regarding the curly imprint of the tot's clenched hand, the artist gave the Persian version...