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...there has been substantial sympathy for their cause. Last week about 150 Missouri farmers brought trucks filled with food to striking miners in Central City, Ky. In southern Illinois banks have generally waived miners' monthly payments for houses and automobiles as long as the strike lasts. Sears, Roebuck has suspended monthly payments on its revolving charge accounts, and finance companies are lending money to miners with no payments due until they go back to work. Grocery stores and other local businesses are extending credit...
...anyone who has read his way along our nation's highways knows, Hallmark Invented Love. Now I don't doubt that a big greeting card corporation invented love--hell, it's general knowledge that Sears Roebuck invented Christmas and that A&P invented the Puritan Work Ethic we are all so thankful for. Despite these precedents, however, I suspect Hallmark has a prurient interest in this thing it calls LOVE...
West Virginians have always had five friends?God Almighty, Sears Roebuck, Montgomery Ward, Carter's Little Liver Pills and Robert C. Byrd...
When Sears, Roebuck's profits tumbled 28% in 1974, it was all too obvious why. Seeking a fashion image, the company had been stocking and advertising higher-priced goods; when the recession suddenly made shoppers price conscious, Sears was stuck with unsold inventories, and discount merchandisers like K mart successfully invaded its old middlebrow market. Since then, Sears has shifted back into its traditional niche between the low-priced stores and the fashion shops, largely at the urging of Senior Executive Vice President Edward R. Telling. Last week Telling, 58, got his reward: a committee of directors chose...
...party throwers, organizers of company picnics, and families who want to try a fast sample of the action. Used, reconditioned machines fetch up to $1,200 each, depending on the game and vintage. As proof that the pins are now iquitous and farious. Sears, Roebuck is marketing a home model called Fireball for $645. Montgomery Ward will also sell an electronic game, for $650, by Christmas...