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

On Veterans Day, November 11, 1981, Dan Goodwin, who had successfully climbed the Sears Tower on Memorial Day, battled for his life on the side of the John Hancock Center.

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

* Edmund Sears, 1800s Unitarian parish minister, author who wrote a number of theological works influential to his contemporary liberal Protestants, famous for penning the words to " It Came Upon the Midnight Clear ".

* Albert Loeb, lawyer and Vice President of Sears and Roebuck who built the Castle Farm test farm complex in Charlevoix.

* Harry L. Sears ( 1920-2002 ), politician who served for 10 years in the New Jersey Legislature.

It was on the Manhole album that Kantner and Slick next worked with Pete Sears ( who had first played on Papa John Creach's first solo album ), who was co-producing a Kathi McDonald album in the same studio.

The line-up also included late-Airplane holdovers drummer John Barbata and fiddler Papa John Creach ( who also played with Hot Tuna ), Jorma Kaukonen's brother Peter, who, after the group's 1974 spring tour, was replaced by Pete Sears ( who, like Freiberg, played bass and keyboards ) and twenty-year-old guitarist Craig Chaquico.

The director also hired Alexander Butterfield, a key figure in the Watergate scandal who handled the flow of paper to the President, as a consultant to make sure that the Oval Office was realistically depicted, former deputy White House counsel John Sears, and John Dean, who made sure that every aspect of the script was accurate and wrote a few uncredited scenes for the film.

Past studies determined that retailers who did not offer shopping carts such as Sears suffered slower sales in comparison with retailers who did use shopping carts.

* First U. S. National Singles Championship, precursor of the US Open, won by Richard D. Sears ( USA ) who defeats William E. Glyn ( USA ) 6 – 0 6 – 3 6 – 2

With his political career seemingly over and with massive debts stemming from his 1974 gubernatorial bid, Maddox began a short-lived nightclub comedy career in 1977 with an African American, Bobby Lee Sears, who had worked as a busboy in his restaurant.

Willis was spotted at a talent contest by Atlanta radio disc jockey Zenas Sears, who became his manager and helped him to sign with Columbia Records in 1951.

Martin's sparring opponents as a manager also included two traveling secretaries ( Minnesota's Howard Fox and Texas ' Burt Hawkins ) in a fight outside of Howard Wong's in Bloomington, Minnesota ; Jack Sears, a fan outside Tiger Stadium ; a Chicago cab driver who preferred soccer to baseball ; sportswriter Ray Hagar, in a Reno indoor arena bar ; marshmallow salesman Joseph Cooper ; two bar patrons, in Anaheim and in Baltimore ; and two bouncers in an Arlington topless bar.

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.

Oriole and Banner, in common with Jewel, the Sears & Roebuck label Challenge, and a few others, often used a standard set of " noms du disque " on their labels, rather than the actual names of the artists who recorded the tracks they issued.

Adam John Walsh ( November 14, 1974 – July 27, 1981 ) was an American boy who was abducted from a Sears department store at the Hollywood Mall in Hollywood, Florida, on July 27, 1981, and later found murdered and decapitated.

He was replaced by a former rival and Sears Roebuck executive from the U. S., Mark Cohen, who prioritized Sears over eatons and cut back aggressively on markdown strategies.

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.

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

Douglass had met with Auld's daughter, Amanda Auld Sears, some years prior ; she had requested the meeting and had subsequently attended and cheered one of Douglass ' speeches.

By 1995 Sears had completely vacated the building, moving to a new office campus in Hoffman Estates.

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

Sears had developed and sold the Telecaption adapter, a decoding unit that could be connected to a standard television set.

I asked my dad for a set of drums for my tenth birthday but he came home with a Sears Silvertone guitar ... I had wanted a set of drums, but my folks couldn't afford them, so I got the guitar.

Shackelford's descendants continued to live in the county, and by the nineteenth century had intermarried with the Taliaferro, Beverley, Thornton and Sears families, among others.

Historian and biographer Stephen W. Sears has called McClellan's actions " essentially sound " if he had been as outnumbered as he believed, but McClellan in fact rarely had less than a two-to-one advantage over his opponents in 1861 and 1862.

It is now home to almost 70 stores and is anchored by Macy's ( located in the original O ' Neils store that had become Kaufmann's for a period of time ), Sears, and JCPenney ( a later addition to the mall ).

Sears had worked on three of Rod Stewart's early British recordings, and had to go back to England to play on Smiler, Stewart's last album made in London, so Jorma Kaukonen's brother Peter Kaukonen first played with the band early in 1974 before Sears returned to the States and replaced him in Jefferson Starship in June 1974.

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.

By 1982, using the “ unitary thrift ” and “ nonbank bank ” “ loopholes ”, Sears had built the “ Sears Financial Network ”, which combined “ Super NOW ” accounts and mortgage loans through a large California-based savings and loan, the Discover Card issued by a “ nonbank bank ,” securities brokerage through Dean Witter Reynolds, home and auto insurance through Allstate, and real estate brokerage through Coldwell Banker.

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.

The toy Johnny Hero was introduced by Rosko Industries for Sears in 1965, but was known as a " Boy's Doll " since the term action figure had not gained widespread usage.

In the resulting aftermath, the University determined that Bresch's degree had been awarded without having the prerequisite requirements met and rescinded it, leading to the resignation of president Michael Garrison, provost Gerald Lang, and business school dean Steve Sears.