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...films and a collector for 30 years. The short sports coat was Harry Sundheim Jr., a Chicago businessman and also a collector. The dark suit was Lester Salkow, a Los Angeles theatrical agent who is Price's business manager. The three were buying original art for Sears, Roebuck, which will sell it to the public along with snow removers, Oxford cloth shirts, storm windows and mink coats...
...mightily from the current fashion for knitted goods. In electronics. Singer has a subsidiary called HRB-Singer, Inc., which does military research and development, and another called Singer Metrics, which makes spectrum analyzers and other microwave equipment. Other Singer subsidiaries manufacture carpetmaking machines, even sell power tools to Sears, Roebuck. Such side efforts in 1962 accounted for 20% of the company's estimated $640 million in sales...
...Angeles, who used to wait decently until after Thanksgiving before putting up the Christmas decorations and playing scratchy recorded carols, were shamelessly early this year, and report that holiday shopping is off to an unseasonably brisk start. With projections based on income, credit and savings statistics, Sears, Roebuck Vice President Arthur M. Wood expects that retail sales will rise 3% or more in the first half...
farmers should somehow be reduced by one-third during the next five years, Staley noted that one committee member was a Ford executive, another a Sears, Roebuck official. Staley promptly organized demonstrations against both companies. Farmers protested to their bewildered Ford dealers, returned their Sears catalogues by the thousands. In the end, both Ford and Sears issued statements pointing out that the officials had worked on the C.E.D. report as private citizens, not as company representatives...
...large gifts to charity) started work in his father's Glasgow cabinetmaking shop, later set up his own furniture store in London. Picked during the Depression to run Great Universal, he has built it into the largest retailing enterprise outside the U.S.-a British blend of Sears, Roebuck and J. C. Penney that last year netted $34 million on sales of more than $560 million...