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Last week Max Adler, vice president of Sears Roebuck & Co., deciding that the U. S. too must have its planetarium, gave $500,000 for its construction on the lake front island east of the Field Museum. Apparatus and instruments will be of the finest, having been ordered from Carl Zeiss, who promised delivery in the fall ot 1929. The 1933 world's fair will see the planetarium performing in its noble 200 foot hall; projecting more than 4,500 planets, planetoids, and stars in orbital motion upon a domed sky 100 feet in diameter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Heavens Above | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...Shrewd, International sells its blades and holders chiefly through chain and mail order stores?F. W. Woolworth; McCrory; J. C. Penney; Sears, Roebuck; Montgomery Ward; American News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Safety Razors | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...newspaper business in Des Moines. Their papers, Register (morning and Sunday) and Tribune-Capital (evening), too big for Des Moines, circulate through all Iowa. They are read by more inhabitants of the state where the tall corn grows than any other publications, except possibly the Bible and the Sears, Roebuck catalog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In Iowa | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Julius Rosenwald, chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck & Co. of Chicago, was the object of Negro hallelujahs throughout the U. S. when the Negro Y. M. C. A. established in his honor an annual holiday called Julius Rosenwald Day. For Negro welfare, Mr. Rosenwald has given some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 30, 1928 | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...scratch and sow the ground. During 1927 not less than 8,000 Russian retailers became farmers, according to Soviet statistics. Last week this process of readjustment, painful to Jews, seemed about to be smoothed by a philanthropic gift of $5,000,000 from famed Julius Rosenwald, chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. (mail orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Jew Farmers | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

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