While listed for informational purposes in the Sears " wish books ", the car could not be purchased by mail order.

A fresh car designed by John Surtees and Ken Sears the TS19 managed to score points for Surtees in 1976 and 1977, and even ran the opening races of the 1978 season.

While some Sears outlets tried to stock at least one sample of the car, most were built on demand by Kaiser-Frazer, which made delivery to the store where they were sold.

Sears marketed the car as " the lowest-priced full-sized sedan on the U. S. market.

" However, Sears did not accept trade-ins from Allstate buyers, and there may have been reluctance to buy a car through a department store where service was thought to be questionable.

The car was in the following Kelly American Challenge races: the 1979 Road Atlanta and Mid-Ohio, the 1980 Golden State and Portland, as well as the 1981 Sears Point and Portland events.

One retired at Sebring 1963, while of three starters at Le Mans that year, two retired and the car of Jack Sears and Mike Salmon came in fifth.

Justice Sears would have held an alcohol-check roadblock an unconstitutional search / seizure because, in her view, the particular roadblock allowed individual officers too much discretion -- “ field officers had the discretion to control the time, the place, and the duration of the road block .” At the same time that she argued on the grounds that officers were given too much discretion, she noted that the officers in the case were required by supervisors ’ policy to stop every car when they put the road block into effect.

The car is run by David Sears ' organisation, Super Nova Racing, as is the A1 Team Germany car, meaning that the two teams are often thought of as one.

He nearly won his first series event at Sears Point that year, but his car ran out of fuel just short of the finish line.

DieHard is a premium brand of automotive battery marketed by Sears Holdings Corporation retailers, including Sears and Kmart.

There are more than 1, 300 commercial and industrial businesses and services within the city's, and the city is proud to have a majority of small businesses, as well as more than 100 major companies within its borders, such as Best Buy, Coca Cola, Commercial Steel Treating Corporation, Costco, CVS Pharmacy, Henkel Technologies, Home Depot, Kmart, Meijer, Micro Center, Ogura Corporation, Sam's Club, Hungry Howie's, Target, UPS, WOW !, Culver's, and Sears.

The company owning the nonbank bank would not be a bank holding company limited to activities “ closely related to banking .” This permitted Sears, GE, and other commercial companies to own “ nonbank banks .”

By 1984, however, Walter Wriston concluded “ the bank of the future already exists, and it ’ s called Merrill Lynch .” In 1986 when major bank holding companies threatened to stop operating commercial banks in order to obtain the “ competitive advantages ” enjoyed by Sears and Merrill Lynch, FDIC Chairman William Seidman warned that could create “ chaos .”

Similarly, the failure of the Sears Financial Network and other nonbank “ financial supermarkets ” that had seemed to threaten commercial banks in the 1980s undermined the argument that financial conglomerates would be more efficient than “ specialized ” financial firms.

" Hip Hop a Lula " was featured in a Sears back-to-school commercial in August 2007.

The former Sears store's parking lot and automotive department, briefly considered as a site for a Home Depot, was developed as a mixed residential / commercial project that now includes townhouses, luxury apartments, and national chain retail stores.

The housing stock in Chevy Chase DC includes many " Sears Catalog Homes ", a popular housing option in the early 20th century that allowed individuals of modest means to order by mail the materials and instructions for a home and build it themselves. The American City Diner is one of several commercial businesses located along Connecticut Avenue NW in Chevy Chase

It also had three major commercial tenants: Sears, Eaton's, and Loblaws.

When Hooper fell into financial difficulties, the Britannica was managed by Sears Roebuck for 18 years ( 1920 – 23, 1928 – 43 ).

In the 1890s the Sears & Roebuck catalogue, which was distributed to millions of Americans homes, offered a syringe and a small amount of cocaine for $ 1. 50.

The Sears model was a specific coup for Mattel, as Sears was already selling a rebadged Atari 2600 unit, and in doing so made a big contribution to Atari's success.

He kept the skull of one of his victims, Anthony Sears, until he was caught.

After the Reagan camp lost the Iowa caucus and fell behind in New Hampshire polls, Nancy organized a second meeting and decided it was time to fire Sears and his associates ; she gave Sears a copy of the press release announcing his dismissal.

However, the theory was revived and expanded by Elisabeth Sears in Shakespeare and the Tudor Rose ( 2002 ), and Hank Whittemore in The Monument ( 2005 ), an analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnets which interprets the poems as a poetic history of Queen Elizabeth, Oxford, and Southampton.

In 1969, Sears, Roebuck & Co. was the largest retailer in the world, with approximately 350, 000 employees.

Restricted in height by a limit imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) to protect air traffic, the Sears Tower was financed by the company.

Sears and the City of Chicago approved the design, and the first steel was put in place in April 1971.

The Sears Tower was not the draw Sears had hoped it would be.

Brokers who were familiar with the lease negotiations stated that Sears was trying to keep Keck, Mahin & Cate in the building.

During the time that Keck, Mahin & Cate was scheduled to move out of the Sears Tower, Sears planned to move its offices to its merchandise group facilities in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.

The pioneer of online advertising was Prodigy, a company owned by IBM and Sears at the time.

Daley argued that the airport was a threat to Chicago's high-rise cityscape and its high profile skyscrapers, the Willis Tower, known then as the Sears Tower, and the John Hancock Center.

Initially endowed by Julius Rosenwald, the Sears, Roebuck and Company president and philanthropist, it was supported by the Commercial Club of Chicago and opened in 1933 during the Century of Progress Exposition.

The " PCM tube " apparatus that Gray patented was made by Raymond W. Sears of Bell Labs, working with Gray and William M. Goodall, who credited Gray for the idea of the reflected binary code.

The concept was taken to the U. S. by Julius Rosenwald, chairman of Sears, Roebuck and Company, who visited the Deutsches Museum museum with his young son in 1911.

The movie was written by James Algar, Winston Hibler, Jack Moffitt ( uncredited ) and Ted Sears.

The first edition was won by Richard Sears who went on to win seven consecutive singles titles.

There are several Big-box stores located here, as well as the Midland Mall, which includes Barnes & Noble, JCPenney, Target, Elder-Beerman, Dunhams, and Sears.

The fortunes of Sears & Roebuck declined in the 1970s as the company lost market share ; its management grew more cautious.

A brief resurgence of production beginning in the early 1970s yielded the Mutual Broadcasting System's The Zero Hour ( hosted by Rod Serling ), National Public Radio's Earplay, and veteran Himan Brown's CBS Radio Mystery Theater and General Mills Radio Adventure Theater, later followed by the Sears / Mutual Radio Theater, The National Radio Theater of Chicago, NPR Playhouse, a newly produced episode of the former 1950s series X Minus One, and works by a new generation of dramatists, notably Yuri Rasovsky, Thomas Lopez of ZBS and the dramatic sketches heard on humorist Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.

Dennis also appeared in the Sears Roebuck Wish Book Christmas catalogue in the 1970s.

Already in 1973 First Chicago Bank had identified Sears as its real competitor. Citicorp CEO Walter Wriston reached the same conclusion later in the 1970s.

Designed in the style of the 1970s and intended at that time to be a statement of Eaton's dominance and its future aspirations, the modern design of this behemoth has not aged well ( despite efforts by Sears Canada in 1999-2000 to improve the look of the building facades ).

He plugs this setup into a 1970s Fender Twin Reverb and two 100-Watt Sears Silvertone 6x10 combo amplifiers.

Many of Acme's stores in the 1960s and 1970s were paired with a regional drugstore chain, PLCB liquor store ( in Pennsylvania ), Kmart or a similar chain at the time such as Woolco ( earlier centers had a Woolworth ), and in rarer cases a department store such as Sears or JCPenney.

The station briefly changed to country music in the late 1970s under new owner, Mike Sears, before becoming WAEC on December 3, 1978.

Industries closed: International Harvester in 1969, Sears ( partially in 1974 and completely by 1987 ), Zenith and Sunbeam in the 1970s, Western Electric in the 1980s.

Along with the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Sears Radio Theater, The General Mills Radio Adventure Theater, Christian radio's Unshackled and public radio's The National Radio Theater of Chicago, Earplay was among the most ambitious nationwide projects in the medium in the U. S. during the 1970s and 1980s.

Adam co-drove a Jaguar XJR-5 with Bob Tullius at Infineon Raceway | Sears Point in 1983. Starting his career in sports cars toward the end of the 1970s, Adam drove as a privateer, winning a Canadian championship before being hired professionally.