Sears Roebuck

Opium eating was the phrase generally used throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century that actually referred to laudanum drinking. Laudanum (from the Latin, something to be praised ) of this period often contained 2 ounces of strained opium, 1 ounce of saffron, and a dram of cinnamon and cloves dissolved in 1 pint of Canary wine and was the recipe of a seventeenth-century English physician, Thomas Sydenham. A dose of this concoction produced a panacea... for all human woes,... equipoise to all the faculties and could be ordered by mail from Sears, Roebuck, for 4 a pint. It has been estimated that no less than 1 percent of the population was addicted to opium at the time. 

This advertisement appeared in the 1905 Sears, Roebuck Company catalogue. The price per bottle for this cure sixty-nine cents. 

Craftsman Silicone Nemours Sears Roebuck Co. Curing elastomer 27.0 C... 

Instead of commercializing new products on the basis of these formidable technical capabilities, Mobil chose in 1974 to become a conglomerate through unrelated diversification with the purchase of two major U.S. companies, Montgomery Ward, for decades Sears Roebuck s primary rival, and the Container Corporation of America. Inevitably the strategy failed, and Mobil sold off the first in 1986 and the second two years later. In 1989, 7 percent of its operating income came from petrochemicals. By 1992 it was... 

The moped looked pretty normal except for a couple of metal boxes— the fuel cell and a NiCad battery—mounted in the frame ahead of and underneath the rider. Kordesch converted the Austrian-made Puch (bought at Sears, Roebuck) in 1966, and he drove it on public roads during his years at Union Carbide. There were two 16-volt, 400-watt hydrazine-air alkaline fuel cells and a Ni-Cad battery. The batteries could be switched in parallel or series for speed control. The range was about 60 miles on 2 liters of a 64 percent aqueous hydrazine, with an easy top speed of 25 miles per hour. 

Despite attempts by health authorities to investigate the matter, the clusters were never adequately explained. I have been able to locate reports of a follow-up investigation by the US Army Environmental Hygiene Agency of the cluster at the Defense Logistics Agency (Tezak 1981), and by the Centers for Disease Control (1981) of the cluster at Sears, Roebuck. Both verified the existence of a cluster neither established any apparent link to the women s use ofVDTs. 

Protective Clothing. Disposable nuclear coveralls made of 100 percent spunbonded olefin. Cat. 118-125 or 126 (Durafab, Cleburne, Texas 76031), liquid proof poly-D disposable boots. Cat. 038-300, reusable rubber gloves. Cat. 034-005 or 010 (Atomic Products Corporation, P.O. Box 1157, Center Moriches, New York 11934), leather gloves (Wells, Lamont, Sears, Roebuck Co.), 28x30 cm, 100 percent cotton white cloth patches and Model 8714 Acid Gas Respirators (220-7W, 3M Center, St. Paul, Minnesota 55101) were used as protective clothing by harvesters and the applicator. 

The settlement houses developed and became models that inspired some companies to initiate some occupational health and safety activities. In 1907, a group of cotton mills in the South employed trained nurses to attend persons who were sick in the mill community (to get them well as quickly as possible). At the New York Telephone Company, there was a retiring-room for operators who felt indisposed. The National Cash Register Company began giving physical examinations to applicants for work as early as 1901. Examinations were introduced at Sears, Roebuck, and Company in Chicago in 1909. By 1914, physical examinations of employees were a fixture in many large companies. 

Sears Logistics Services (SLS) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sears, Roebuck and Co., and is one of the worlds largest procurers of trucking services. 

It was after this statement that Tolman asked us what those radical views were, about which he had heard so much. So far, he said, all the discussion was most reasonable. I said that the view about Sears Roebuck s suitability as a contractor was the most radical view I was holding. 

Sears, Roebuck and Company, 1S97 Sears Roebuck Catalogue (1897 reprinted. New York Chelsea House, 1968). 

By the spring of 1942 requirements for the shell had reached a point where the CWS felt obliged to seek additional contractors, and the service awarded 4 additional prime contracts at that time. Two of the new contractors, Erie Basin Metal Products, Inc., and the David Bradley Manufacturing Division of Sears Roebuck and Co., were located in the Chicago Chemical Procurement District. The other 2, the Guiberson Co. and Hardwicke Etter Co., were in the Dallas procurement district. In 1943 another prime contractor was added, the Day and Night Manufacturing Co. in the San Francisco district. Early in 1945 prime contracts were awarded 5 more manufacturers, 3 in the Boston procurement district and 2 in the Dallas procurement district. But the war came to an end before any of these 5 got into production. 

He ordered a dresser-wardrobe from Sears-Roebuck for 15.51, cash. Both his wife and he have difficulty in writing, so he asked Miz Gabe to write out the order for him. Miz Gabe asked Julia to do it, and Julia asked me to do it. 

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