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...capture half of that $11 billion market in the next three or four years. Hart Schaffner & Marx reports that double knits make up half of the suits being manufactured under the H.S. & M. label, which are priced from $135 to $200. Double knit departments have been opened at Sears, Roebuck stores, and at least half of the dress slacks sold by J.C. Penney are double knits. "We're manufacturing men's suits as fast as we can, but we hardly get them into the store before they're sold," Genesco Chairman Frank Jarman told TIME...
...Soviets, moreover, are inclined to accord greater respect to information that has been acquired deviously?even if it is as accessible as a Sears, Roebuck catalogue. In The First Circle, Novelist Solzhenitsyn scathingly described a prison research institute run by Soviet intelligence where American magazines that were sold to anyone in the U.S. "were here numbered, bound with string, classified and sealed up in fireproof safes, out of reach of American spies." The result, for the CIA as well as the KGB, is an astonishing amount of make-work and the accumulation of vast amounts of material that simply cannot...
...National Retail Merchants Association estimates that private labels account for a phenomenal 60% of the annual $42 billion in department-store sales. More than 90% of Sears, Roebuck's volume is in its own private labels, making it the largest outlet for such brands. In supermarkets, 10% to 15% of the grocery items are "house brands," and the figure is rising. A. & P. is the front runner; 30% of the items on its shelves, many of them manufactured by the firm itself, are familiar house brands, including Ann Page and Jane Parker...
About two-thirds of Whirlpool's sales come from house brands in Sears, Roebuck and other stores. General Electric makes private-brand appliances for J.C. Penney; refrigerators sold under Penney's Penncrest labels are strikingly similar to G.E.'s models but are usually priced lower. Sears' $187.99 Celebrity portable typewriter is made by SCM Corp., which markets a machine with almost identical works under its own name...
...stop war, to change society, Gregory said, students and other young people should use economic boycotts. "Declare a boycott on Christmas until the war ends, and Sears Roebuck and other firms will get pretty uptight. Get organized, boycott the big ones like General Motors and you'll be amazed how fast things happen," he added...