Historically, the Irk has also been known as Iwrck or the Irke, names thought to have been derived from the Roebuck, suggesting that the Irk was at one time a swift-running river.

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

Mrs. Roebuck smilingly declined and began suddenly to go on about her son, who was `` onleh a little younguh than you bawhs ''.

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 first of these was the production of sulphuric acid by the lead chamber process invented by the Englishman John Roebuck ( James Watt's first partner ) in 1746.

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

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.

Clarence Gilyard remained on, but with the addition to Roebuck to the cast and the character of Cliff Lewis becoming a second private investigator, his role was diminished somewhat.

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.

This was later developed at Roebuck Springs under the leadership of club women.

* Richard Sears, founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company, was born in a neighboring town and grew up in Spring Valley.

About the only way things were purchased away from home was through the Sears and Roebuck Catalog.

In the 1920s, Sears, Roebuck and Company was a major mail order company.

The Broome Bird Observatory, sited in pindan woodland close to the northern shore of Roebuck Bay, was established by Birds Australia in 1988, and formally opened in 1990.

The House of Commons was moved by Roebuck to reverse the sentence, which it did 29 June by a majority of 46, after having heard from Palmerston on 25 June.

John Arthur Roebuck ( 28 December 1802 – 30 November 1879 ), British politician, was born at Madras, in India.

He became associated with James Watt when Watt's business partner, John Roebuck, was unable to pay a debt to Boulton, who accepted Roebuck's share of Watt's patent as settlement.

Arnold was also bullied by other children at school — where he was known as " Bonehead " and his best " friend ", Porky Roebuck, once spearheaded a plan to eat him during a Space Scouts survival course.

Rimmer later recounts an occasion on which Roebuck threw his favourite shoes into the school septic tank whilst he was wearing them.

The company was formed as a joint-venture between the Robert Simpson Company ( Simpson's ), an existing Canadian department store retailer, and Sears, Roebuck and Co. of the United States.

The publication of these diaries as New Voyage Round the World in 1697 was a popular sensation creating interest at the British Admiralty and in 1699 Dampier was given the command of the Roebuck with a commission from the Admiralty ( and by inference King William III who had reigned jointly with Queen Mary II before her death in 1694 ).

Margaret was given two ships by her father Robert, the Leicester and the Roebuck.

Among the most adventurous of her licensing ventures were a two-season lower-priced, mail-order fashion line for Sears, Roebuck & Co. ( 1916 – 17 ), which promoted her clothing in special de luxe catalogues, and a contract to design interiors for limousines and town cars for the Chalmers Motor Co, later Chrysler Corporation ( 1917 ).

* Obituary of her by ballet dancer Gavin Roebuck

In 1879, Charles Harper suggested that the pearling industry could be served by a port closer to the pearling grounds and that Roebuck Bay would be suitable.

Peter Roebuck recorded that " Gower never moves, he drifts " while Frances Edmonds in the Daily Express spoke of Gower in 1985: " Difficult to be more laid back without being actually comatose.

Peter Roebuck, a columnist in the The Sydney Morning Herald, branded Ponting as " arrogant " and insisted that be stripped of the captaincy.

Allstate automobiles were planned to be built on the senior Kaiser platforms, but following three years of negotiations between Kaiser-Frazer and Sears, Roebuck, the production Allstate was announced on November 20, 1951 by Sears merchandising vice president Theodore V. Houser and Kaiser-Frazer administrative vice-president Eugene Trefethen.

Peter Roebuck later claimed Katich should be the Australian cricket captain after Ricky Ponting came under fire during the January 2008 SCG Test.

Roebuck Road defines the southernmost end of Clonskeagh ; this area is sometimes known as Roebuck and occasionally considered to be part of Windy Arbour.

St. Kilians Deutsche Schule and the Lycée Français d ' Irlande share a " Eurocampus " in Roebuck Road, offering private schooling in a multicultural and multilingual environment, claimed to be unique to Ireland.

In 1746 in Birmingham, England, John Roebuck began producing sulfuric acid in lead-lined chambers, which were stronger, less expensive, and could be made much larger than the glass containers which had been used previously.

On hearing in Fremantle of the failure at Camden Harbour, they decided to sail for the settlement at Roebuck Bay instead, but after failing to enter the bay due to adverse winds, the settlers were disembarked at Tien Tsin, later to be called Cossack the chief port and landing at Nickol Bay.

The schools that would be available to Frogville are Hugo Elementary school 1100 David Roebuck Lane, Hugo Middle school 300 North E., Hugo High school 201 E. Brown ( Henry ), Fort Towson Elementary West 3rd Street, and Fort Towson High School West 3rd Street ( Mandevill ).

Washington developed a major relationship with Julius Rosenwald, a self-made man who rose to the top of Sears, Roebuck and Company in Chicago, Illinois.

I tore the baffle off my electric organ, cranked up the tiny Sears and Roebuck mail order amp, and sang that raggedy book from cover to cover, memorizing beat street lyrics, adopting the wail of a moaning man of constant sorrow, a tambourine man, a weather man, only a pawn, only a hobo, but one more is gone, leaving nobody to sing his sad song, and on and on.

Lake Argyle and other wetlands of the Ord and the Kimberley are important habitats while there are important populations of shorebirds in the Ord estuary, Eighty-mile Beach and Roebuck Bay, which has been described as " one of the most important stop-over areas for shorebirds in Australia and globally ".

Unsurprisingly, there were textile mills in the village such as Moorhouse & Brookes, on Greenhill Bank Road, and Bower and Roebuck, nestling in the valley just off the A616 Sheffield Road.

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In the mid-19th century, as the United States transitioned to an industrial economy, national corporations like Proctor & Gamble, Railway Express, Sears & Roebuck and others recognized that someone could work for the companies for 20 plus years, reach an old age, and then have no income after they could no longer work.

The expedition found no gold, but good pastoral land was found, and as a result a small pastoral venture was later established at Roebuck Bay.