Word: roebuckers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...luck of Clarence Jackson reads like something out of Dickens. It seems less a question of luck than of a remarkable incompatibility between law and justice. How is it that Sears, Roebuck, having retained this scrofulous attorney and empowered him to act in its name, does not have the same responsibility for his actions as it would if a clerk shortchanged a customer? Or has it no responsibility there, either? If it is possible for a lawyer to act "ostensibly" for a corporation while in fact pursuing private and nefarious interests, then we have some loose bricks in our legal...
...began with $1,500 worth of power tools ordered from Sears, Roebuck on an installment basis. As far as Jackson was concerned, the tools never worked properly, and after months of complaints and $900 in payments, he told Sears that he wanted his money back or the equipment replaced. When he stopped his payments and would not let the tools be reclaimed, Sears sued him for the unpaid $625.59; he countersued for his $900. Sears won, and he appealed. There the matter rested, at least for Clarence Jackson...
...pioneer the change from flat-folded Christmas wrappings to those sold by the roll. His stock in trade is the traditional design -Santa Claus, the Christmas tree, Donner, Blitzen, etc. This has helped him to become the main supplier of Christmas wrapping paper to tradition-minded giants like Sears, Roebuck...
Once known as Winter & Co., the firm was founded in a Bronx, N.Y., loft in 1899. In those days, The Bronx alone had 40 piano manufacturers and suppliers. Most of them went under in the Depression. What saved Winter was the company's pre-crash takeover by Sears, Roebuck & Co., which kept the firm in business through the bad days...
...Retail sales, becalmed since last September, rose briskly during June at a dozen major chains. Sears, Roebuck and J. C. Penney both announced an 8% sales gain for the month, while Interstate Department Stores, with 107 outlets in 83 cities, experienced a 14% rise in volume. The increases spread across many fields. Sales of the Grand Union grocery chain rose 9%, those of the Walgreen drug chain 15%, those of the S. S. Kresge variety chain...