Word: roebuck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...energetic and talented First Lady has opened a new door in the dream of total conservation," cheered the National Wildlife Federation and the Sears-Roebuck Foundation. And so they presented Lady Bird Johnson with the first annual Whooping Crane Award for "distinguished service to conservation." Other whoopers went to New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Idaho's Senator Frank Church, the Outdoor Writers Association and General Electric Co., but it was Lady Bird who soared in her acceptance speech. "The psalms and the poetry throughout our history recount the strength from the hills," she said. "Thank...
Slow Fame. Though public fame has not yet overtaken Transamerica's rising fortunes, competitors have been quick to recognize the company's innovations in the merchandising of financial services. In varying degrees, such giants as Sears Roebuck, J. C. Penney, and even International Telephone & Telegraph Co. have adopted the department-store concept of finance pioneered by Transamerica. Beckett wants "to blanket the U.S., Canada and Europe" with Transamerica financial services. By feeding business from one Transamerica subsidiary to another, and eventually selling all of the company's services through single outlets, he aims to create a financial...
...Saturday tea on the theory that shoppers are exhausted by week's end and welcome such a break. The Denver Dry Goods Co. requires its buyers to remain on the sales floors during peak hours, both to keep salespeople alert and to help customers with shopping problems. Sears, Roebuck reminds its repairmen to shine their shoes, and Chicago's Polk Bros, requires its delivery men to remove shoes before walking over fancy wall-to-wall carpeting...
...private pension funds usually keep a high and rising 40% of their funds in the stock market. Some of the employees' funds have assets as big as huge companies: the A.T. & T. fund amounts to $4.7 billion, and U.S. Steel, General Motors and Sears, Roebuck each approach $2 billion. The pension funds, into which the employer usually pays all the money, are run by a mixed board of management and labor, which heeds the advice of a bank or a Wall Street investment house...
...versatile tractors, once manufac tured by only a few companies, are now sold by 47. Sears, Roebuck so far is in the lead with three tractor models...