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...prefabricated house is by no means the cheapest on the market. The famed wood-frame Hodgson house, originated 43 years ago by Boston's E. F. Hodgson, can be bought for considerably less. Sears, Roebuck & Co. will put a bungalow together for $2,500. But the prefabricated house builders hope to meet this competition by making their product twice as good as the cheapest house. They offer at least three things which Hodgson and Sears, Roebuck do not: termite-proof steel frames, airconditioning, fireproof materials. The prefabricated house is also earthquake-proof, can be blown over only...
...With sales up $62,000,000, Sears, Roebuck & Co. announced 1934 earnings of $15,020,000, highest since 1930. Directors promptly voted a special 75? common dividend, first since...
...other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, Franklin Roosevelt was doing his best to influence the fortunes of the war. On the eve of the Senate debate he had General Robert E. Wood, president of Sears, Roebuck, come to Washington. An advocate of dollar devaluation, of the self- contained-nation theory of trade, General Wood has long been sympathetic with New Deal experiments. As businessman, he has served on NRA's Consumers' Advisory Board, on Secretary Roper's Business Council. Newshawks jumped to the conclusion that the President was grooming General Wood to succeed S. Clay Williams when...
...Chicago last week rumbled 102 freight cars carrying 3,000 tons of one of the most widely circulated catalogs on earth. One-third of the total issue of Sears, Roebuck & Co.'s Spring-Summer number, it was the biggest single shipment of printed matter the railroads had ever handled in two days...
Even before Thanksgiving the tills were ringing cheerily. Sears, Roebuck's November sales were 7% ahead of 1933. Montgomery Ward rang up the best November in five years. Many a chainstore reported gains of 10% or more. Chevrolet sold 50,000 cars to consumers last month? top figure for November since 1926 when an all-time high was established. Walgreen Co. (drugstore chain) reported the best November in history...