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...year presidency of the nation's biggest manufacturing corporation, handed over command of the U.S. war effort to a locomotive engineer's son from Hannibal, Mo., who had wanted to be a professor of chemistry, but who became, as the $70,000-a-year manager of Sears, Roebuck & Co., the country's No. 1 mass-buyer...
...thin film of nickel is first deposited on the metal, then a layer of zinc or tin much thinner than usual is added. Baking then fuses the two coats into an alloy whose exceptional resistance to rust and corrosion has already been demonstrated on wire screens, and on Sears, Roebuck's insecticide spray tanks. Even though small amounts of nickel are required, the net result is a goodly saving in scarce metals...
Mail-order men think the two-year boom in retail sales is about over. Said Sears, Roebuck President Thomas J. Carney last week: "We do not expect so large a volume of sales next year." Montgomery Ward told stockholders it had set up a $2,000,000 reserve against "price declines...
...mail-order experts deserved a respectful ear. In the 1930s they outwitted, outsold and outearned most U.S. merchants. While Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward boosted combined sales from 1930's $600,000,000 to 1940's $1,219,000,000, department-store volume slumped 9%. While mail-order profits jumped sky-high many a department store plopped into receivership...
...Price Glory? is missing. Sergeant Quirt & Captain Flagg join up again, proceed immediately to get in Dutch by avidly pursuing their general's wife. Typical dialogue: "Lady, if I was to know every girl who goes riding with me I could make a fortune selling it to Sears, Roebuck as a mailing list...