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...Madden, dispossessed owner of a golf driving range on Western Avenue, will sue the University for $50,000 for damages incurred when the property upon which the range stands was sold to Sears Roebuck and Company...
...poured more than $7,000,000 into their International Basic Economy Corp., and had started new Latin American businesses in partnership with local capital. Another $5,000,000 had gone into such enterprises as Filatures & Tissages Africains, to make textiles in the Belgian Congo for the local market. Sears, Roebuck, which had spent $20 million on new stores in Mexico, Brazil and other countries, last week opened a $2,000,000 store in Caracas...
...success is due to its flexibility of operation and concentration on sales to independent jobbers and retailers. Though fully half the U.S. shoe industry has set up its own retail outlets, Ed Rand still intends to rely on the independents as well as such chains as Sears, Roebuck and J. C. Penney. But he hopes to make some changes. Where his father carefully avoided any razzle-dazzle, Ed Rand hopes to step up sales with a louder blast on his advertising horn...
...nearly every one of 150 million Americans are in it. . . Most of our 'know-how' works only in a business economy ... In most of the world, business activity does not touch the mass of the people . . ." As an example of what could be done, FORTUNE cited Sears, Roebuck's new stores in Brazil. To keep the stores going, Sears men had to go about Brazil persuading local manufacturers to make stuff for them to sell. "Sears has linked formerly separated Brazilians into new business currents with one another. This, in a small but significant way, is Reformation...
...Texas theme. Though I do not share in the anti-Texas feeling one hears frequently voiced, it does seem that a whole evening devoted to variations on this single theme is too much to ask of anyone. All of the other rural jokes are there, too: the Scars, Roebuck catalogue, the outhouses are good for two laughs, and so on. Several of the lines are of questionable taste, and one remark goes beyond bad taste. It occurs when the political scum, Hominy Smith, toys with the idea of becoming president. "Why not," he asks, "Truman did it, didn...