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...truce tents at Panmunjom, nothing was settled either. A dismal pall of petty complexities had settled over a mission that once seemed pressing and simple. Daily, the truce delegates marched into their stove-warmed tents for the usual round of long, surly wrangles or ridiculous little meetings of a few minutes (one last week lasted only 120 seconds) at which neither side would speak. The issues were the too familiar ones-the Reds' insistence that Russia is a fit neutral to police the truce, the U.S. insistence on "voluntary" repatriation of prisoners, the usual exchanges of insults over mishandling...
Despite such tricks, Sears, Roebuck built a solid reputation for supplying high-quality goods at low prices. Its cream separators sold for $39.50 v. $125 for competing brands. A farmer could buy a Sunday suit for $4.98, a couch for $5.45, a stove for $11.96, a six-room house ("machine-made, ready-cut") for $972, and a "single dog power churn" for $14.70. Sears was indeed the farmer's friend-to the end and sometimes beyond. Once a woman returned some medicine intended for her husband, because he had died before it arrived. By return mail she received Sears...
...Swagger Suit. Richard Sears got into other troubles. Because he neglected his supply department, he was often unable to fill orders for merchandise he had advertised. Once, he angrily dumped a bundle of unfilled orders into the stove. Another time he impulsively advertised a "swagger suit" which he had admired in a Chicago department-store ad. When 5,000 orders poured in, he frantically looked for someone to make it. The man who helped Sears fill the orders was Julius Rosenwald, a small clothing manufacturer, who soon became one of the company's big suppliers...
...East. A Bad Lands drunkard who had just put a couple of holes in the clock over the bar waved his cocked pistols at the stranger and announced: "Four Eyes is going to set up drinks." Four Eyes paid him no mind, finished warming his hands at the stove, then turned and-as both bullets went wild-knocked the gunman cold with a single punch. After that, Tenderfoot Rancher Theodore Roosevelt was affectionately known around Mingusville as Old Four Eyes...
...editors clustered around a stove in one room, writing editorials and giving orders to staff men who slipped in to see them. They sniffed nosegays and munched bonbons sent in by admirers. Personal bodyguards came & went with visitors...