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...Sears, Roebuck bought a site in Lima for its first retail store in Peru, its 25th in Latin America. Sears stores are already doing well ($75 million gross last year) in Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil and Colombia...
...Victor Appleton, for example, was carefully kept from meeting any other. Today, Founder Stratemeyers daughters run the corporation, claim that so far the new Tom Swift Jr. series has been entrusted to a single Appleton. He has already turned out three. With thousands of new sales outlets, including Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward, young Tom stands a chance of doing as well as his great...
...facade of the building are the bold initials G.U.M.-for Glavny Universalny Magazin (Principal Department Store). G.U.M. is Moscow's answer to Macy's, Gimbels, Sears Roebuck, Woolworth and A. & P., all rolled into one. Scheduled to open next week, but already three weeks behind schedule, it is being hailed in advance by the Soviet press as "the biggest and the best in the U.S.S.R...
...Chicago, Sears Roebuck reported that its October sales were 7.8% below last year's. Said Chairman Robert E. Wood: "This unseasonable weather has caused a perceptible slump in many fall and winter lines." Montgomery Ward's sales were down 15.5%. In New York, where a six-day, eye-burning "smaze"* added to the buying apathy, the fur business was down 20%; oil companies cut prices of heating oils by ½? a gallon to boost lagging sales. Anthracite men noted sadly that their sales so far this year were down by about...
...that point, the picture has at least the charm of a kind of exotic silliness-rather like finding the underwear section of the Sears Roebuck catalogue floating gravely along the upper Orinoco...