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...Cornerstone of the improvement, said Dun & Bradstreet, was "the strongest desire to buy that the public has displayed since Wartime days." Despite bad weather in certain sections, the final surge of Easter buying boosted retail sales to the highest level in three years and 70% above last year. Sears, Roebuck reported March sales up 57% from 1933. Spectacular reports were expected from the chainstores...
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...commodity markets. Traders had long since discounted dollar devaluation, and even a dose of green-backery. What whetted the stock speculator's appetite was unmistakable signs of better business. Most significant sign last week was the announcement of mail order sales-infallible index of rural spending. Sears, Roebuck reported January sales 30% above last year, Montgomery Ward 45%. Ward's retail stores sales were up 21%, its mail order sales...
...last week in Akron's Domestic Relations Court. The Federal Trade Commission was using the courtroom for hearings not on domestic relations but on unholy relations which, the Commission charged, have long existed between Goodyear Tire & Rubber and the world's biggest mail order house. Sears, Roebuck (TIME, Oct. 30). Invoking the Clayton anti-trust laws and the ancient demons of discrimination, monopoly and secret rebates, the Commission attacked the contracts by which Goodyear makes cheap tires for Sears to sell under Sears' brand names. Last week's revelations...
...widow ex-Congresswoman Ruth. There were a huge Christmas tree and wreaths from the family's greenhouse adjoining their Long Island estate. Philadelphia police arrested a milkman named William Schultze who on threat of bodily harm had tried to extort $30,000 from Lessing Rosenwald (Sears Roebuck) to "go into the pasteurization business...