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...statement, saying : "We rarely deny rumors and we do not intend to begin the practice now but this report was disseminated so widely as to call for denial. The Fords are not buying any bank stock anywhere." Prepaid Freight. With the ancient rumor of a merger between Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward once again laid low, last week there was evidence of a move of co-operation between the two. Prepayment of freight, a move originated by the two houses last summer, has been costly, now will be abandoned by both...
Chicago's planetarium is a gift from Max Adler, retired vice president of Sears, Roebuck & Co. The second one in the U. S. will be in Philadelphia, gift of Samuel S. Fels. Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History hopes to have the third. Germany, home of planetariums, has 15; Italy two; Russia, Sweden, Austria have one each...
Mail Order. Rumored and vigorously denied last week: that Sears, Roebuck & Co. will merge with its biggest and bitterest competitor, Montgomery Ward & Co. To tales that Sears, Roebuck's General Robert E. Wood and Montgomery Ward's George Bain Everitt have been engaged in conferences, General Wood stated: "We had luncheon together several times and have discussed certain things of mutual interest, hut if there is any trend toward consolidation I do not know about it." Wall Street cynics read the denial, remarked that a problem of mutual interest must be how to get mail order shares back...
Sirs: Jan. 28, was officially proclaimed "Jolson Day" in Houston by Mayor Montieth, and Jolson appeared here on the night of the 28th, giving his reason for being here as "Sears-Roebuck and several other stocks...
...Sears Roebuck...