May Department Stores, Mary Livingstone[?] was working as a lingerie salesgirl here when she met her future husband Jack Benny. Later, the department store was used as a setting in his radio and television shows.
Sears & Roebuck[?], later Sears[?], its first mail order catalogs caused prices to drop all over the country, leading to their being called "the great price maker"
... Russia. The European names derived from misinterpretation of a Manchu name "sahaliyan ula angga hada" (peak of the mouth of Amur River). Sahaliyan means black in Manchu ...