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Sears Tower
Sears Tower Chicago, the world's third tallest building. Until the opening of the 1,483-ft (452-m) Petronas Towers (1997) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, it was the world's tallest building. Constructed from 1970 to 1974 for Sears, Roebuck & Co., it rises 110 stories to a height of 1,450 ft (442 m... Read more
store
store commonly a shop or stall for the retail sale of commodities, but also a place where wholesale supplies are kept, exhibited, or sold. Retailing—the sale of merchandise to the consumer—is one of the oldest businesses in the world and was practiced in prehistoric times. Total re... Read more
Edmund Sears Morgan
Edmund Sears Morgan 1916-, U.S. historian, b. Minneapolis. After receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1942, he taught at the Univ. of Chicago (1945-46) and at Brown (1946-55) before becoming (1955) professor of history at Yale. An expert on American colonial history, Morgan writes in a way that appe... Read more
cautery
cautery searing or destruction of living animal tissue by use of heat or caustic chemicals. In the past, cauterization of open wounds, even those following amputation of a limb, was performed with hot irons; this served to close off the bleeding vessels as well as to discourage infection. In modern... Read more
John Lamb
John Lamb 1735-1800, American Revolutionary leader, b. New York City. Prior to the Revolution he was a leader of the Sons of Liberty in New York and helped form the New York committee of correspondence to coordinate anti-British activity. With Isaac Sears he led (1775) a mob that seized the New... Read more
Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti , 1905-94, English novelist and essayist, b. Ruschuk (now Ruse), Bulgaria. He came from a Sephardic Jewish background, spent most of his early years in Vienna, and, fleeing Nazism, emigrated to England in 1939 just before the outbreak of World War II. His most important works, all writ... Read more
John Hancock
John Hancock 1737-93, political leader in the American Revolution, signer of the Declaration of Independence, b. Braintree, Mass. From an uncle he inherited Boston's leading mercantile firm, and naturally he opposed the Stamp Act (1765) and other British trade restrictions. In 1768 his ship Libe... Read more
llanos
llanos , Spanish American term for prairies, specifically those of the Orinoco River basin of N South America, in Venezuela and E Colombia. The llanos of the Orinoco are a vast, hot region of rolling savanna broken by low-lying mesas, scrub forest, and scattered palms. Elevation above sea level neve... Read more
John Slidell
John Slidell , 1793-1871, American political leader and diplomat, b. New York City. He became a prominent lawyer and political figure in New Orleans and served as a Democrat in Congress (1843-45). In 1845, Slidell was appointed special U.S. envoy to Mexico to adjust the Texas boundary and to negotia... Read more
Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls, 160‐foot waterfall on the border of the United States and Canada, over which the Niagara River waters of Lake Erie flow into Lake Ontario. Niagara Falls was first seen by Europeans in the late seventeenth century. With the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, Niagara became Ameri... Read more

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Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...due to Richard Sears' innovative unconditional...by which the company stood. In 1893 Sears and Roebuck became partners...That made Alvah Roebuck uneasy and two...his interest to Sears, remaining on...In 1895 the company reorganized with...
Sears, Richard W.
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Richard W. Sears American merchant...the Sears, Roebuck & Company mail-order...Minneapolis, Sears teamed with Roebuck again and...name on the company. By 1893...name, the Sears, Roe-buck and Company. Sears and Roebuck printed and...
Sears, Richard Warren
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...years after selling his company, Sears established his new...Minnesota. He hired Roebuck again and this time...and Company. In 1893 Sears moved the business to Chicago and renamed it Sears, Roebuck and Company. Once established in...
Long Tail
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Management ...information. While many companies attempt to fall...broad-market companies in the early twentieth century was Sears Roebuck. Sears Roebuck...a mail-order company, so Sears Roebuck...for many other companies. Calling such...
Mail-Order House
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...retailer Montgomery Ward and Company, founded in 1872 in...American Richard W. Sears (1863 – 1914...joined with Alvah C. Roebuck (1864 – 1948) to found Sears, Roebuck and Company. The Sears...Montgomery Ward and Sears Roebuck were aided by the U...
Julius Rosenwald
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...held executive offices in Sears, Roebuck and Company, America's leading mail...provides some material on Sears, Roebuck but focuses on Rosenwald...and Counters: A History of Sears, Roebuck and Company (1950), places Rosenwald...
Robert Elkington Wood
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...was responsible for building Sears, Roebuck and Company into the world's largest merchandising...Counters: A History of Sears Roebuck and Company (1950). Additional...Robert E. Wood and Sears, Roebuck, New York: New American Library...
Montgomery Ward and Co.
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...Marsh and Co., John Wanamaker, Sears Roebuck and Company, and Carson, Pirie, Scott and...already fallen well behind Sears Roebuck, whose sales were three times greater...such as Montgomery Ward and Sears Roebuck also sa
Retail Industry
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...catalog retail stores (Sears, Roebuck & Company, and Montgomery Ward and Company, in the late 1800s...Sears, Roebuck & Company and Montgomery Ward...1903. Multi-Mailing Company of New York gathered...serviced by one line. Companies like Multi-Mailing...
Aaron Montgomery Ward
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...aspects. Competition with Sears, Roebuck was brisk, and Sears passed the Ward company in annual volume of sales...of the origin of Ward's company and its chief competitor...Counters: A History of Sears, Roebuck and Company (1950). Stewart...

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Sears Roebuck Catalog
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History SEARS ROEBUCK CATALOG SEARS ROEBUCK CATALOG. In 1886...business to Chicago. His company eventually grew into...world. Mail-order companies answered midwestern...Sears, Roebuck and Company in 1893. Expanding...
Encyclopedias
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...and New York. In 1920 Britannica was purchased by Sears, Roebuck and Company, headquartered in Chicago, and the fourteenth edition...The publication of yearbooks commenced in 1938. Sears expanded its marketing, developing direct-sales...
Dime Stores
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...1911, the F. W. Woolworth Company became the dominant variety store...department stores, the Kresge Company branched into self-service...retailer in the world. Only Sears, Roebuck and Company had greater sales. Other major...
Hardware Trade
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Scovill Manufacturing Company of Connecticut, a...the first hardware companies to employ traveling...stores by mail-order companies such as Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward...ventures were Cotter and Company and American Wholesale...
Museum of Science and Industry
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Rosenwald, the chairman of Sears, Roebuck and Company and a prolific philanthropist...National Broadcasting Company, forged a close relationship...between MSI and the companies whose research and...fields. To assure these companies that their public relations...
Chicago
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...giant railroad car works and model industrial town just to the south of Chicago. Meanwhile, Montgomery Ward and Sears, Roebuck Company were making Chicago the mail-order capital of the world. The Great Fire of 1871 proved a temporary setback...
Jenney, William Le Baron
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...using an iron-and-steel frame for the whole building, with diagonal wind-bracing. Then, with the Sears, Roebuck, & Company Store, State and Van Buren Streets (1889–81), he expressed the iron and steel frame behind...
Gilded Age
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...marketplaces. Mass marketing companies like I. M. Singer, mail-order houses like Sears, Roebuck, and department stores...capital investment in a company amounted to $700...investors and shareholders, companies needed to increase the...the National Cordage Company led to a stock ...

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RICHARD SEARS AND ALVAH ROEBUCK SEARS ROEBUCK & CO. AN ALLIANCE THAT BROUGHT MAIL ORDER INTO THE MAINSTREAM.
Magazine article from: HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network; 11/27/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...placed by Richard Sears, founder of the...stores. Sears Roebuck & Co...Sears was the company that was able...Rosenwald into the company. Rosenwald organized the company's internal distribution...plant to study Sears' assembly line...maven, Alvah Roebuck came ...
RIST RESIGNS AS HEAD MEN'S MERCHANT OF SEARS, ROEBUCK; SEARS SHAKEUP CONTINUES BUT KEN WALTER REMAINS AS COMPANY'S V-P, GMM OF MEN'S.
Magazine article from: Daily News Record; 9/15/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...and children's for Sears, Roebuck, DNR has learned. Her...merchandising for the company and Arthur Martinez...1977 when she joined the company as a copywriter/trainee...strong performer for the company, posted a 4 percent...
ATTORNEY GENERAL MCGRAW REACHES AGREEMENT WITH SEARS ROEBUCK ON HOME IMPROVEMENT PRODUCTS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 8/7/2008; 632 words ; ...announced an agreement with Sears Holdings Corporation...allegations that the company was failing to comply...Subsidiaries Sears Roebuck & Co. ("Sears Roebuck") and Sears Home...complaints against Sears Roebuck, alleging that the...
Sears, Kellwood to pay fines in down label case. (Sears, Roebuck)
Magazine article from: Daily News Record; 3/18/1987; ; 700+ words ; Sears, Kellwood To Pay Fines...reported Tuesday that Sears, Roebuck and a Sear's supplier, Kellwood...consent decree with Sears. He said the terms...court complaint that the companies mislabeled and falsely...garments. Since the company has not produced or...
Sears plans all-apparel ad drive, seeks a new agency for effort. (Sears, Roebuck and Co. Sear Merchandise Group) (Brief Article)
Magazine article from: WWD; 1/25/1993; ; 700+ words ; CHICAGO -- Sears Merchandise Group...campaign for fall. Sears Merchandising, a division of Sears, Roebuck & Co., has...familiar with the company expect that could...strongest category. Company-wide, the chain...
Kmart Holding Corporation and Sears, Roebuck and Co. Agree To Merge.
Business Wire; 11/17/2004; 700+ words ; ...KMRT) and Sears, Roebuck and Co. (NYSE...major new retail company named Sears...process for both companies. Sears Holdings...The combined company will also benefit...businesses of Sears and Kmart to...than either company could achieve...and Sears, ...
Kmart Holding Corporation and Sears, Roebuck and Co. Agree to Merge.
Business Wire; 11/17/2004; 700+ words ; ...KMRT) and Sears, Roebuck and Co. (NYSE...major new retail company named Sears...process for both companies. Sears Holdings...The combined company will also benefit...businesses of Sears and Kmart to...than either company could achieve...and Sears, ...
Sears Roebuck Acceptance Corp. to Redeem 7 Percent Notes Due March 1, 2038.
PR Newswire; 8/1/2003; 649 words ; ...Del., 19807. About Sears, Roebuck and Co. Sears, Roebuck and Co. is...businesses. In 2002, the company's revenue was $41...the U.S. through Sears stores nationwide...9669, both of Sears Roebuck Web site: http...
Sears Roebuck Acceptance Corp. to Redeem 6.95 Percent Notes Due October 23, 2038.
PR Newswire; 9/23/2003; 695 words ; ...Del., 19807. About Sears, Roebuck and Co. Sears, Roebuck and Co. is...businesses. In 2002, the company's revenue was $41...the U.S. through Sears stores nationwide...9669, both of Sears Roebuck Acceptance Corp. Web...
Sears & Roebuck Rises From the Ashes
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 2/17/1994; 700+ words ; ...the Chicago-based Sears Roebuck & Company was...1993 earnings, the company's best performance...Sears & Roebuck Company: [excerpt of press...to reporters why the company is hitching its wagon...recruited from other companies, in a departure from...