Word: roebuckers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sears, Roebuck...
...began in 1926, after Merchant Philanthropist Julius Rosenwald returned from a visit to Munich's famed Deutsches Museum, which pioneered in developing industrial exhibits the visitor could operate. He and his eight-year-old son William, were fascinated. Rosenwald gave the equivalent of $8,000,000 in Sears, Roebuck stock, and by the time of the 1933 Century of Progress fair, the Museum of Science and Industry was a reality...
...wanted a nice nine-to-five man. A John Citizen." Nevertheless, on Nov. 17, 1934, barely two months after they met, Lady Bird and Lyndon were married in San Antonio by a pastor they had never before met, with a hurriedly purchased $2.50 wedding band from Sears, Roebuck. Next morning Lady Bird stunned Eugenia Lassater with an exuberant phone call: "Lyndon and I committed matrimony last night...
...effort to ensure better profits, the casualty firms have tried to cut their costs by installing computers and setting up drive-in claims offices for on-the-spot settlement designed to eliminate expensive paper work. Sears Roebuck's Allstate, which pioneered many of the innovations, now has 375 such offices. The industry has donated driver-training equipment to many high schools to help slow the rising auto-accident rate and has begun tailoring its policies more closely to fit the risk. Insurance commissions have been besieged by companies seeking rate increases: fortnight ago. New York granted a long-awaited...
...moving beyond purely scientific computers. Its most popular model is its high-speed 3600, a machine that averages $3,000,000 in price, is designed for data processing as well as for scientific problems. The 3600 will be used, for example, by West Germany to forecast weather, by Sears Roebuck to coordinate orders from 1,400 offices, and by Francis I. du Pont & Co. to receive and channel stock orders to specialists...