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...Sears, Roebuck and Company, Ford Motor Company, Bulova Watch, and R. H. Macy & Company are cited by the pamphlet as already taking advantage of the tax incentive scheme to further educational projects...
Like the model T Ford and the Sears, Roebuck catalogue, B.V.D.s are part of U.S. folklore. Not many citizens know that the initials stand for "Bradley, Voorhees and Day," but everyone knows they stand for men's underwear. Last week the famous trademark took the biggest step in its 75-year history. The $47 million-a-year B.V.D. Industries, Inc., which operates seven knitting mills and factories in the U.S., Canada and South Africa, sold the trademark and its retail sales force to New York's Onyx-Superior Mills...
...When I hear some Sears & Roebuck pistol-toting cowboy from Brooklyn insinuate how the Government has tailed up the farmer at the expense of all the rest of the people," said Republican Burdick, it does not set well with me ... You complain against the beef men. I am one of them . . . I am willing to take a loss on my cattle, and it means $8,000 loss to me on the one rollback. I am willing to stand for that if it will help the entire country .; . If I was concerned only with my own interests, I would vote against...
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...York Stock Exchange, in 1927 became a partner in Goldman, Sachs. As Weinberg's fame as a shrewd judge of stocks and men spread through the Street, so did his influence. He became director of more than a dozen corporations, including such giants as Sears, Roebuck, B. F. Goodrich, Cluett, Peabody, Continental Can, and General Foods. When World War II began, he was drafted as a dollar-a-year man, served with 0PM, and later with WPB, exercised his talent as body snatcher and also as a mediator between Donald Nelson and Charlie Wilson...