Word: roebuckers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...month, and both men and women residents worked on the school's farm to produce their food. The teachers' salaries were paid with proceeds from a touring minstrel show. Jones' band was a 17-horn affair-the brass bought on credit from Sears, Roebuck & Co. Many of its members also played football and would parade out for halftime shows in their football uniforms...
...Citizens Band radios received another boost on New Year's Day, when a Federal Communications Commission ruling that delighted CB bugs went into effect. The FCC authorized the use of 17 more channels to supplement the 23 already crowded by 7.8 million licensed CBers. Although retailing biggies like Sears, Roebuck will gain much from demand for the new, higher-capacity radios, the firm that stands to benefit most is a fast-growing Texas-based chain of consumer electronics stores called Radio Shack...
...Rafshoon, 42, the New York-born head of the Atlanta shop bearing his name. A University of Texas graduate, he cut his teeth doing publicity for 20th Century-Fox and founded his own shoestring outfit in 1963. He has 16 nonpolitical clients led by the regional division of Sears, Roebuck with about $1 million in billings. Local concerns, such as GETZ Exterminators ("GETZ Gets "Em") and the Georgia department of industry and trade, bring him $6 million more annually...
...really, is 50 or so colorful plastic cylinders slipped onto a piece of rope, and it only costs about 75? to make. But Sears, Roebuck, J.C. Penney and Montgomery Ward all carry the Lifeline jump rope (plus its special exercise booklet) for $4.95 a throw. These days, legions of Americans who are neither little girls nor prizefighters are jumping rope-and making Bobby Hinds an instant tycoon...
...bulldozers hired by the Army Corps of Engineers put the finishing touches on some 50 miles of dikes, residents of the flood plain began moving their belongings out of their homes and storing them in the town auditorium and armory; the buildings soon resembled Sears Roebuck warehouses, cluttered with furniture, refrigerators, washing machines and television sets. The 12,000 evacuated from their homes settled down for what could be a long siege, finding rooms in local motels, beds in the homes of friends and relatives or cots in a crowded school gymnasium. Said Mayor Chester Reiten, whose town has already...