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Sears bids Hometown, Outlet, hardware stores goodbye in spinoff
Sears Holdings Corp., one of several struggling big-box retailers, is splitting off more than 1,000 Hometown, Outlet and hardware stores as a separate, public company. The spinoff will affect 1,238 stores total. Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores, Inc....Tags: JC Penney Company Inc., Google+, Kmart, Companies and Corporations, Real Estate Buyers
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Antique vegetable advertisements popular with collectors
Fresh vegetables were part of the diet of the Victorian household during the warm, growing months. But stored root vegetables and home canned food were used on snowy days. Advertisers knew that imaginary vegetables acting like humans were as popular a...Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Toy Industry, Oakland Athletics, Salt, Spiro Agnew
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Current Prices
Current prices are recorded from antiques shows, flea markets, sales and auctions throughout the United States. Prices vary in different locations because of local economic conditions. Holt Howard salt and pepper set, men, Old West style with beards and...Tags: Salt, Anglo-Saxon Gold Hoard Discovery (2009), Baking Powder, Prices
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When Sears, the Facebook of its era, launched its IPO
Even people who don't play the market are thinking this week about buying stock in Facebook's initial public offering of shares.
One hundred six years ago, Sears, Roebuck and Co. was its era's version of a hot tech company. Like Facebook, Apple or...Tags: Marshall Field, Walmart, Discover Financial Services, Willis Tower, Mark Zuckerberg
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Three California Sears stores among 79 outlets to close nationwide
Money & CompanyThree Sears stores in California are among 79 stores nationwide on the chopping block after a dismal holiday season forced Sears Holding Co. to retool its strategy.... -
Harry Crews dies at 76; Southern writer with darkly comic vision
Harry Crews, a rough-hewn Southerner who drew a keen following with novels that describe a Hieronymus Bosch landscape of grotesques — characters who are tossed into rattlesnake pits, walk on their hands, croon lullabies to a skull and literally...Tags: The New York Times, University of Florida, Gainesville, College Sports, Colleges and Universities
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Resume, references, password: Job seekers get asked in interviews to provide Facebook logins
When Justin Bassett interviewed for a new job, he expected the usual questions about experience and references. So he was astonished when the interviewer asked for his Facebook username and password.
Bassett, a New York City statistician, had just...Tags: McLean County, New York City, Career and Workplace, Law Enforcement, Sociology
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Interview with Douglas Oberhelman, CEO of Caterpillar
Douglas Oberhelman is the most outspoken business leader in Illinois.
As CEO of Peoria-based Caterpillar, he has placed himself — and the issue of Illinois' fiscal crisis — centerstage through a series of sharp-tongued op-eds bemoaning the...Tags: Government, Plant Openings, Career and Workplace, Japan, Federal Income Tax
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Sears to sell, spin off stores after $2.4-billion quarterly loss
Sears Holdings Corp. posted a $2.4-billion loss in its fourth quarter but appeased investors by planning to sell or spin off many of its stores to boost liquidity.
The Hoffman Estates, Ill., company reported a loss of $22.63 per share in the quarter that...Tags: Real Estate Sellers, General Growth Properties, Inc., Services and Shopping, Companies and Corporations, Hoffman Estates
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