Word: roebuck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this is a recession, let's have more of it. So joke some shoppers trying to elbow their way through the crowds that are thronging the stores. K mart has rung up a sprightly 13.7% increase in retail sales so far this year, and even laggard Sears, Roebuck reported a 3.7% monthly rise in November, its biggest gain in more than a year. So where is the recession? Like a mugger, it could be lurking around the next quarter if it has not already pounced. Real personal earnings are down nearly 5% from last year, and there are signs...
...Conference of Mayors are sponsoring the conference, Mitropoulous said, adding the Department of Housing and Urban Development and Sears, Roebuck and Co. will help fund the program. Mitropoulous added he does not yet know the total cost of the program...
...especially hard by the shortage, but the effects are also being felt in such "glamour" industries as publishing, television and advertising. Chicago's First National Bank has been giving $500 bounties to employees who recruit new secretaries, and the big CNA insurance firm offers color TVs. Sears, Roebuck and California's Crocker National Bank have held open house parties in an attempt to attract applicants...
...Steve's, a Somerville ice cream parlor famous first for its long lines, and only secondarily for its ice cream. For the adventurous, there is Game Time, a classic pinball parlor that Cambridge cops and politicians have tried several times to close down. There's also a Sears, Roebuck, a haven of middle-Americana only a mile away from the cosmopolitan--and expensive--Harvard Square. And from Porter Square all the way out to Fresh Pond at the far end of the city, Mass Ave is lined with stores and restaurants, many--like Vic's Eggs...
DIED. Lessing Rosenwald, 88, former chairman of Sears, Roebuck, and collector of rare books, prints and drawings which he donated to the National Gallery of Art and the Library of Congress; in Jenkintown, Pa. Son of Julius Rosenwald, mail-order pioneer who preceded him as Sears chairman, Rosenwald retired from Sears at 48 to devote himself to philanthropy, various political interests and his lifelong passion, collecting...