Ownership has changed many times, past owners including the Scottish publisher A & C Black, Horace Everett Hooper, Sears Roebuck and William Benton.

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.

* Lincoln Motor Car Works, a company that produced cars sold exclusively by mail order by the Sears Roebuck Company from 1908 until 1912

Atari's Home Pong console, released through Sears, Roebuck and Company | Sears in 1975

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

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

Many of these trade instruments were formerly sold by Sears, Roebuck and Co. and other mass merchandisers.

* The Thompson submachine gun sells for $ 175 in the 1925 Sears, Roebuck and Company mail order catalog.

He became friends with such self-made men as Standard Oil magnate Henry Huttleston Rogers ; Sears, Roebuck and Company President Julius Rosenwald ; and George Eastman, inventor and founder of Kodak.

By 1908 Rosenwald, son of an immigrant clothier, had become part-owner and president of Sears, Roebuck and Company in Chicago.

* Sears, Roebuck and Company

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.

Julius Rosenwald, the Sears, Roebuck and Company president and philanthropist, energized his fellow club members by pledging to pay $ 3 million towards the cost of converting the Palace of Fine Arts ( Rosenwald eventually contributed more than $ 5 million to the project ).

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

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.

On February 5, 1997, the company merged with Dean Witter Reynolds, and Discover & Co. the spun off financial services business of Sears Roebuck.

A large retail outlet, Temple's B & O Cash Store, shipped merchandise nationwide, before being bought by Sears and Roebuck in 1929 and later closed in 1954.

It is named after Julius Rosenwald, Chicago ( 1862-1932 ), President of Sears and Roebuck.

In 1934 his son Tom went to work for Sears Roebuck and Company and earned the fantastic salary of $ 17. 50 a week.

The business park came to fruition in 1993 when Sears, Roebuck and Company relocated from the Sears Tower in Chicago to a sprawling headquarters in the northwest part of Prairie Stone.

The city's most popular department / general stores include Siman, Hiper Paiz & Paiz ( Walmart ), Price Smart, ClubCo, Cemaco, Sears, Office Depot, etc.

The theory proposed considered to be the most likely evolution of running is of early humans ' developing as endurance runners from the practice of persistence hunting of animals, the activity of following and chasing until a prey is too exhausted to flee, succumbing to " chase myopathy " ( Sears 2001 ), and that human features such as the nuchal ligament, abundant sweat glands, the Achilles tendons, big knee joints and muscular glutei maximi, were changes caused by this type of activity ( Bramble & Lieberman 2004, et al .).

According to Sears ( p. 12 ) scientific investigation ( Walker & Leakey 1993 ) of the Nariokotome Skeleton provided further evidence for the Carrier theory.

By 1990, Keck, Mahin & Cate, a law firm, considered moving out of its space in the Sears Tower and moving into a potential new development, which would become 77 West Wacker Drive.

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 riots resulted in the demise of Camden's Sears and A & P branches.

The Mall in Columbia is a large regional shopping mall with five anchor department stores ( Nordstrom, Lord & Taylor, Sears, Macy's, and JCPenney ) and over 200 stores and restaurants.

* Uncle Tom's cabin: or Life among the lowly ; frontispiece by John Gilbert ; ornamental title-page by Phiz ; and 130 engravings on wood by Matthew Urlwin Sears, 1853 ( a searchable facsimile at the University of Georgia Libraries ; DjVu & layered PDF format )

Other stores in Bullhead City are Walmart Supercenter, K-mart, Lowe's, J. C. Penney, Stage, Sears, Hastings Entertainment, Big 5 Sporting Goods, Home Depot, Walgreens, CVS Pharmacy, Safeway, and Smith's Food & Drug.

The village now serves as the headquarters location for the Sears Holdings Corporation, the midwest headquarters for AT & T and the American headquarters for Mori Seiki.

The largest employers in Hoffman Estates are Sears Holdings Corporation ( 5, 700 employees ), AT & T ( 4, 700 ), St. Alexius Medical Center ( 2, 121 ), GE Capital ( 800 ), Career Education Corporation ( 650 ), ADP ( 600 ), Siemens Medical Solutions ( 500 ), Leopardo ( 400 ), Liberty Mutual ( 400 ), Claire's ( 350 ), Bosch Rexroth ( 160 ), Mori Seiki ( 100 ) and FANUC ( 100 ).

A bustling retail sector emerged in downtown Moline, anchored by merchants like the New York Store, Sears & Roebuck, and JC Penney.

Most of the early houses were mail-order designs from Sears & Roebuck and the McClure Homes Company.

* Richard Warren Sears, founder of Sears, Roebuck & Company

* Sears, Roebuck & Co.

These are historically black schools started by Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Co .,.

* Richard Warren Sears, founder of Sears, Roebuck, and Co, began his retail sales career by selling unclaimed watches while serving as a station agent for the railroad in Wolsey in the early 1880s.

To preside over their committee, America First chose General Robert E. Wood, the 61 year-old chairman of Sears, Roebuck and Co ..

A 1918 Sears, Roebuck and Company | Sears, Roebuck and Co. ad with several models of vibrators

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.

Supertone Records were marketed by Sears, Roebuck & Co.

Sears purchased all the shares of T. Eaton Co., eight of its stores, with the option to buy five more, and the Eaton's name, trademarks, brands, and Web site.

By 1906, the Sears, Roebuck and Co opened their mail order and headquarters operation in a building in Chicago, at the time, the largest building in the world.

Every structure from the World's Columbian Exposition was long ago destroyed by fire, demolished or moved elsewhere, except for the old Palace of Fine Arts, now the Museum of Science and Industry, The Palace of Fine Arts, the only fireproof building at the fair, fell into disrepair and was rehabilitated with a $ 5 million grant in 1930 from Julius Rosenwald ( President of Sears, Roebuck and Co .).

After securing a sponsorship deal with the Chicago-based retailer Sears, Roebuck and Co., Soul Train premiered on WCIU-TV on August 17, 1970, as a live show airing weekday afternoons.

Other companies such as Imperial Knife and Remington Arms paid royalties to Schrade in order to produce automatic " contract knives " for rebranding and sale by large mail-order catalog retailers such as Sears, Roebuck & Co.

In keeping with his interest in education, Hirsch advised a wealthy congregant, Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck & Co., to use part of his wealth to help build public schools which black students could attend in the segregated south.

In Chicago, Hillman worked briefly picking orders in a warehouse for $ 6 a week before finding a slightly better-paying job in the infants ' wear department of Sears, Roebuck & Co. as a clerk.

By the 1920s and 1930s, large mail-order houses such as Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Montgomery Ward provided serious competition, so the department stores relied even more on salesmanship, and close integration with the community.

Yet by 1921, Bing had re-established itself in the U. S. market, largely through sales through catalog retailer Sears, Roebuck & Co.

There, he produced shoes for the private label catalog market, supplying stores such as Sears, JC Penney, Spiegel, and Montgomery Ward & Co ..

In 1900, Wards had total sales of $ 8. 7 million, compared to $ 10 million for Sears, Roebuck and Co., and the two companies were to struggle for dominance for much of the 20th century.