Word: roebuck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sears, Roebuck...
After all it is a commodity the scarcity of which is due rather to forgetfulness than to expensiveness. Since the hey-day of the great Sears Roebuck catalogues the manufacturers have realized the necessity of an efficient yet economically priced product. I beg you to urge the students through your powerful editorial columns to join in the fight to expel this insidiously constant reminder that Harvard men are petty thieves. Let us not sell our honor for ten cents. Let us have no more marking with colored crayons of objects which at one time or another have to come...
...prefabricated house is by no means the cheapest on the market. The famed wood-frame Hodgson house, originated 43 years ago by Boston's E. F. Hodgson, can be bought for considerably less. Sears, Roebuck & Co. will put a bungalow together for $2,500. But the prefabricated house builders hope to meet this competition by making their product twice as good as the cheapest house. They offer at least three things which Hodgson and Sears, Roebuck do not: termite-proof steel frames, airconditioning, fireproof materials. The prefabricated house is also earthquake-proof, can be blown over only...
...With sales up $62,000,000, Sears, Roebuck & Co. announced 1934 earnings of $15,020,000, highest since 1930. Directors promptly voted a special 75? common dividend, first since...
...other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, Franklin Roosevelt was doing his best to influence the fortunes of the war. On the eve of the Senate debate he had General Robert E. Wood, president of Sears, Roebuck, come to Washington. An advocate of dollar devaluation, of the self- contained-nation theory of trade, General Wood has long been sympathetic with New Deal experiments. As businessman, he has served on NRA's Consumers' Advisory Board, on Secretary Roper's Business Council. Newshawks jumped to the conclusion that the President was grooming General Wood to succeed S. Clay Williams when...