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...laborers' union. At the peak, 11,800 laborers got jobs. The carpenters' union could supply only 200 of its regular members, but 8,113 carpenters had to be hired. Army men said that about 55% of them were roughwork carpenters, 35% were not fully qualified. "Sears Roebuck carpenters" arrived at the site with $5 worth of new tools and a desire to cut in on the Government bonanza. But the unions were the boys who really cut in. Their "take" in initiation fees and dues, Army men estimated, was at least...
...chemical engineer he got a job in 1912 as a laboratory-tester at Sears, Roebuck &. Co. Donald's first job was to analyze boys' pants and chewing gum, which he frequently found together. A man of rare patience, he rose slowly but thoroughly as a merchandising know-it-all, reaching the vice-presidency in 1930. He had long since become the foremost mass buyer in the U. S. From 1928 through 1938 he bought merchandise that sold for $4,500,000,000-some 135,000 items, from tin cups to tractors, from diapers to tombstones...
...clear view of the size of the problem, partly out of his own experience, partly because he has a talent for clarity. He is also as honest as only a wise man can be: he spent his youth being kicked out of copy writers' offices in Sears, Roebuck, fighting for exact and truthful description of all merchandise. And because truth is beauty, even in lawnmowers, Sears catalogues have always read well...
Wham, Mr. Roosevelt; pow, Sears Roebuck; awk, big dipper; bop, summer rain...
...rose the Office of Production Management's Director of Purchasing, ex-Sears, Roebuck executive Donald Marr Nelson. Warned he: "When the Defense Program was first undertaken the general policy was to superimpose [it] on the normal requirements for the civilian population. . . . The Defense Program has now, however, passed into the second stage. . . . [It] can no longer be superimposed. . . . If it is possible to produce what we need and still take care of our business as usual, that, of course, is what I want to do, but we must have the defense material regardless...