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...invite you to visit us at 1812 Massachusetts Ave., opposite Sears, Roebuck Company...
...intelligent pessimist, seeking omens and portents of business depression, will allow himself to glance at the recent history of U. S. mail order houses. Balance sheets of Sears Roebuck and of Montgomery Ward are the particular pride of bulls, the dull despair of bears. In 1921, Year of Deflation, Sears Roebuck admitted an operating loss of $16,435,468. And Montgomery Ward showed a loss of $9,887,396. But in 1922, both companies declared net profits of about $5,000,000. By 1927, Montgomery Ward could show profits of $13,127,431, and Sears Roebuck nearly twice as much...
...Sears Roebuck stock, less spectacular, has not lagged behind the advance. From a low of 51 in January, 1927, it climbed to a 1928 high, last fortnight...
...science and industry is indicated by the average of their ages-74. Younger are the two historic exponents of commercial aviation, youngest of great industries. Orville Wright, at 57, is seven years the senior of Glenn Hammond Curtiss. Charles Michael Schwab (Bethlehem Steel Co.) and Julius Rosenwald (Sears Roebuck & Co.) are 66. Tiremaker Harvey Samuel Firestone...
...have now forged beyond their fields into larger industrial problems. The Ford plant in Dearborn is held the world's most exhaustive and interesting experiment in mechanistic production. Establishing a plantation in Liberia, Tiremaker Firestone attempts to readjust the world's rubber economics. As head of Sears Roebuck & Co., Julius Rosenwald directs a merchandising policy which threatens to bring many a U. S. manufacturer to terms...