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...Chicago's most popular scientific institutions were founded by philanthropic potentates of Sears, Roebuck & Co. While visiting Munich in 1920, the late Julius Rosenwald was stirred by his son William's extraordinary interest in the Deutsches
...onetime professional musician, Max Adler joined Sears, Roebuck as a buyer of musical merchandise, became vice president before he retired in 1928. He also was stirred by something he saw in Munich-a planetarium. When he gazed at the great Zeiss projector with its twinkling knobs, and at the wheeling panorama of the skies on the vault overhead, he determined that Chicagoans should have access to the same experience, laid out $500,000 for the Adler Planetarium, first in the U. S. Mr. Adler still drops around frequently to see how things are going, is eminently pleased with the planetarium...
...these days of changing social, economic and political values," Sears, Roebuck's President Robert E. Wood wrote to stockholders last week, "it seems worth while in this annual report ... to render an account of your management's stewardship, not merely from the viewpoint of financial reports, but also along the lines of those general broad social responsibilities which cannot be presented mathematically." Mathematically for the No. 1 U. S. mail order house, 1936 scarcely could have been better. Sears enjoyed the best year in its history. So did its older and smaller rival, Montgomery Ward & Co., which reported...
...company's policy of keeping wages ahead of advancing living costs and providing vacations with pay, General Wood made the first public accounting of Sears' Employes' Savings & Profit Sharing Pension Fund through which the workers have become the largest single stockholding group in Sears, Roebuck & Co. (9.2%). Inaugurated in 1916 by the late great Julius Rosenwald, the Fund has paid out $45,204,000 to a total of 65,000 employes who paid in only $10,042,000. Company contributions and stock dividends completed the total. Currently 19,000 employes have deposits...
...virtually every type of air-conditioning equipment except a heating unit, its specialty being the coils which it supplies to other air conditioners, including General Electric. Trane systems have been used on such major jobs as the New York Life Insurance Co. building in Manhattan, Wrigley Tower and Sears, Roebuck's building in Chicago, the House of Representatives office building and Supreme Court building in Washington...