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                             Frank Sinatra’s RAT PACK.
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                          December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990
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R.W. Sears began selling watches to supplement his income
as a railroad station agent. He was so successful the he was
able to quit his railroad job within less than a year and began
selling mail order watches full time. In 1893 Sears took on a
partner and established the corporate name, Sears, Roebuck
& company.
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The first Sears catalog was only thirty-two pages and
grew to over a thousand by 1908.
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The Sears, Roebuck & company plant in Chicago, 1895.
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                                 The USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor.
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                 The USS Arizona memorial at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.