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...smaller weavers got orders for some 13,000,000 yd. of serge, overcoatings, shirtings, odds & ends. Cotton mills got orders for 930,000 yd. of khaki cotton cloth. Also placed were orders for 176,350 yd. of "army cottons by Treasury Procurement Chief Donald Marr Nelson (lately of Sears, Roebuck), past master in dealing with hundreds of small-time textile companies. Expectation was that Don Nelson might soon be doing more buying for both Army & Navy, as Ed Stettinius' late, great father, Edward R. Stettinius, did on a broader scale from shorts to siege guns in World...
...direct procurement through the Treasury: Donald Marr Nelson, 51, whose spectacles and rabbity air mask tremendous keenness and big-league ability. Mr. Nelson, executive vice president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., will be the Government's purchasing agent, will be the knuckles and fist of the entire coordinating committee. To organize the Government invasion of industry, by aligning the 240-odd Federal bureaus with the committee's efforts: William H. McReynolds, 61, dry, withery, counsel-keeping White House assistant who knows better than any living man the labyrinthine network of agencies within the Government...
...were forced to raise a few hundred dollars with which to keep their positions in war babies like North American Aviation (down 8⅞ points by Tuesday's close to 15) and found it by dumping nonwar babies like Chrysler (down 15⅜ points to 66⅛), Sears, Roebuck (down 5½ points to 77½) for what they could...
...some 12,500 items in its midsummer sale "flyer" catalogue, Sears, Roebuck & Co. dropped prices an average 11.2% under its January spring & summer catalogue...
Ever since the age of 14, when he discovered black drawing ink in the artist's materials section of a Sears, Roebuck catalogue, stocky, Minnesota-born Adolf Dehn has drawn, etched and lithographed in black. A specialist in bulging bankers and pneumatic nuns, Dehn went to Manhattan in 1916, got odd jobs drawing for the old Liberator, drifted off to Europe for a spell, soon made himself a reputation as one of the ablest and most individual black-&-white men in the U. S. Half straight, half comic, Dehn's squirming, salty lithographs were prized by art connoisseurs...