Word: steel
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About 11,000 companies make products for Sears. Some of the firms are well known. France's Michelin makes Sears RoadHandler steel-belted radial tires; Hamilton Beach supplies many of its tabletop kitchen appliances; Sunbeam provides irons; Singer makes Craftsman electric drills; Sanyo, Hitachi and Toshiba produce Sears television sets, stereos and videocassette recorders. Most of the suppliers, though, are unknown outside their industries, firms like Irwin B. Schwabe of Great Neck, N.Y., a shirt supplier and the largest maker of flannel shirts...
...stern hand. He had the vision and daring to lead Sears into new fields like stock brokerage and real estate. After becoming chairman, he set up a strategic planning committee. Says Archie Boe, who retired in March as Sears president: "We studied every U.S. industry, even automobiles and steel...
Still, the fundamental formula is remarkably unchanged. Just as in earlier times, there are tools, furniture, appliances and gardening equipment. A woman 87 years ago could have bought half a dozen sterling-silver forks for $10.85. Today her great-granddaughter can pick up a 20-piece set in stainless steel for $14.99. Refined versions of the old puffery remain: "Where else would you find such a wide selection of colors and such an incredible value?" reads an ad for women's shoes...
...been touched by the finger of God, Actor Hume Cronyn observed, and there was in fact something miraculous in his becoming an actor at all. His father, Richard Jenkins, was a coal miner in the Welsh steel town of Pontrhydyfen; Burton was the twelfth of 13 children, and his mother died when he was two. An ambition to be not only an actor but a superb actor was somehow ignited, and when he was in his teens he attached himself to Philip Burton, who taught literature and drama in a local school. "He had a very coarse, rough voice then...
...night, Reve finds himself tormented with particularly nasty castration dreams that feature Christine wielding a pair of scissors in her blue-painted claws. Lest we dismiss the scene as a chuckle at Reve's castration complex and gender anxiety, within the next few shots we're shown Christine, applying steel-blue nail polish and' gleefully waving a very real pair of scissors. When Reve looks at the beach, he sees a bloody, mutilated man emerging from the waves, taking a quiet walk, he is hit over the head by a dying seagull...