Word: roebuck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago last week rumbled 102 freight cars carrying 3,000 tons of one of the most widely circulated catalogs on earth. One-third of the total issue of Sears, Roebuck & Co.'s Spring-Summer number, it was the biggest single shipment of printed matter the railroads had ever handled in two days...
Even before Thanksgiving the tills were ringing cheerily. Sears, Roebuck's November sales were 7% ahead of 1933. Montgomery Ward rang up the best November in five years. Many a chainstore reported gains of 10% or more. Chevrolet sold 50,000 cars to consumers last month? top figure for November since 1926 when an all-time high was established. Walgreen Co. (drugstore chain) reported the best November in history...
...Moffett's desk was high-piled with such messages as: ''Sacramento reports 1,000 increased employment in the building trades this month over last. Material dealers extremely busy and painters not to be had.''* Companies like Johns-Manville, National Radiator. U. S. Radiator, Sears Roebuck, were all cashing in on the great drive for home renovation...
Last week W. F. Hall Printing Co., which prints catalogs for Sears, Roebuck, Montgomery Ward and other direct-by-mail houses, made Hadar Ortman its president. Robust, apple-cheeked, curly-haired, 36, he will head a company which prints more magazines than any other, at its 20-acre Chicago plant...
Julius Rosenwald 2nd, grandson of Sears, Roebuck's late board chairman, reported to Sears' Seattle branch, ready to begin work as a clerk. Asked about the business, he protested: "Say, I'm just a kid that's starting from the bottom. I'm going to start learning something about it tomorrow. I'd start today but I've got hay fever...