"You could write thousands of words and not sum up the American way of life as well as the Sears catalogue does. There it isthe American way of life; our clothes, appliances, all in one convenient book." The U.S. Information Agency agrees with this boast by Edward Hardiman, foreign-sales representative of Sears, Roebuck & Co., and has sent 3,500 copies of Sears's 1,444-page fall and winter catalogue to its 225 overseas posts as an official weapon of anti-Communist propaganda.
The Government first began sending abroad a trickle of catalogues from Sears, Montgomery...
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