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...Many young doctors are reluctant to try it because they fear professional isolation, want to be near good hospitals. Virginia and Kansas pioneered with plans to have communities build midget medical centers and lease them (sometimes at $1 a year) to doctors in sectors remote from hospitals. The Sears, Roebuck Foundation works through the A.M.A. in offering communities help in planning, financing, building and equipping the centers. Last week Dr. Sills got his permanent license from the Georgia Board of Medical Examiners, was one of hundreds of doctors happily settled in country practices under such schemes in the last...
Died. Donald Marr Nelson, 70, longtime (1912-42) Sears, Roebuck executive who was appointed (1942) by F.D.R. to be chairman of the War Production Board, captained the gigantic wartime industrial effort, went abroad to oversee production in England, China and Russia, resigned (1944) in a huff over what he felt was interference by the military, whom he later accused (Arsenal of Democracy) of trying to control the U.S. economy, became president (1945-47) of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Los Angeles...
...first six months of this year. With the rise came a sharp upward pressure on housing costs. ARCHITECTURAL FORUM reported that the index of building-materials prices jumped 2.7% between January and June, against a 2% gain for the whole of 1958. But other prices were holding steady. Sears. Roebuck, Montgomery Ward. Spiegel, and Aldens Inc. announced that their fall catalogues will show no overall price increase, and some prices are lower...
...Department stores rang up 8% more sales in the week ending May 2 than last year. Sears, Roebuck alone reported April sales...
When it was launched four years ago, N.M.S. got 19 companies to agree to foot the college bills of deserving youngsters, started off by testing 56,000 students. This year N.M.S. tested 480,000 (32% of all U.S. high school seniors), has 87 sponsors ranging from Sears, Roebuck, which has financed 350 scholarships so far, to the Central Soya Co. Inc. with one. By the time the 1959 crop graduates from college, the companies will have given some $15 million to 3,000 National Merit scholars. And, beside the actual scholarship winners, 10,000 selected 1959 Merit finalists can count...