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...world's biggest merchant-Sears, Roebuck & Co.-expects lower sales this year: 6% less in dollars (from 1941's record-smashing $915,000,000), 30% less in unit volume. Biggest expected loss is $100,000,000 in refrigerators, radios, washing machines and tires...
...pick up live rattlers with a forked tube. Since Cross Creek was written, the man who showed her how has since been bitten twice by moccasins, once by a rattler. Mrs. Rawlings' herpetological heroism reached the point where she killed a moccasin in her bathroom with a Sears Roebuck catalogue...
...rubber imports (there are virtually none). Production of synthetic rubber was technically under the command of WPB's raw materials Boss William L. ("Bill") Batt, was actually in charge of Hydra-handed Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones, who doles out the dough. Used rubber was under Sears, Roebuck's J. Lessing Rosenwald. Rubber rationing was under Price Chief Leon Henderson...
...Montgomery Ward vice president, Folsom was editing Montgomery Ward's catalog when Donald Nelson was editing Sears, Roebuck...
...Putting its spring catalogue in the mails, Sears, Roebuck remarked that some of the substitute materials in its merchandise "have been found to be far superior to the metal they have replaced. . . ." Examples: washing machine agitators, formerly aluminum, are now of Bakelite, vitreous china, enamel or plastic, all impervious to alkalis; a pump unit, formerly of brass and stainless steel, will use corrosion-resisting plastics...