Word: roebuck
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...getting a healthy run from shoppers, many willing to pay up to $75 for a pair of shoes, while such mass merchandisers as Outlet Co. stores report business running 6% to 10% ahead of last year. Retail trade is also healthy in Los Angeles and Chicago; in August, Sears, Roebuck posted its biggest monthly sales gain since last October...
...most schools, the job search is easiest for minority and women students. Sears, Roebuck, for example, interviewed only minority students in one trip to the University of Washington. "If I had 100 black engineers, male or female but preferably female, I know I could place them with five phone calls," says Northwestern's Lindquist...
...villages are magnets to the seamen, because the prostitutes live there. A house wall-papered with a 1971 Sears, Roebuck catalogue soon became the sailors' hangout, because it was big as houses go in the villages, with two rooms and a six-foot ceiling (when often two or three whores work a single room in shifts), and because the prostitute who lived there had an ice chest that was a cornucopia of beer. Her proudest possessions were the kerosene lamp on the table in the front room and the stack of fourteen bars of soap beside it. Raised...
...about his father's bike that had a "pa-pa-put" motor on it so he never had to pedal except to get started. He asked me about the name engraved on the frame of the bike, and laughed when I said the American r's in "Sears, Roebuck...
...crime's motive. The signs seem to point to old-fashioned insurance fraud. Moeller bought Sponge Rubber Products' manufacturing operations and inventories last year from the B.F. Goodrich Co., which had found the company's profits unacceptably low. Shortly thereafter, he lost a $5 million Sears, Roebuck account after jacking up prices too abruptly, then lost more business after severely tightening credit terms for customers. A day after Moeller's arrest, Sponge Rubber Products' attorneys filed an insurance claim, asking $37 million for loss of business, $14 million for the plant's contents...