My grandmother met my grandfather in Chicago in the Montgomery Ward building in the 1940s.

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Montgomery Ward filed for Chapter 11, and Woolworth closed its namesake stores last year.

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The lawyer found no applicable patent, and Pentalpha sold its fryer to Sunbeam, which in turn sold them in the U.S. through Montgomery Ward and other resellers.

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In the U.S., the traditional shopping mall is part of a saturated market, thanks to big-box retailers and retail-industry consolidation that wiped once-popular anchor stores like Montgomery Ward from the landscape.

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By age 5, Coleman was modeling for retailer Montgomery Ward, a job that was followed by appearances in commercials for McDonald's and Hallmark, according to a 1979 profile in People magazine.

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Why pay dividends if you can buy Montgomery Ward?

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In the U.S., meanwhile, the traditional shopping mall is part of a saturated market, thanks to the off-mall big-box retailers and to retail-industry consolidation that has jettisoned previously popular anchor stores like Montgomery Ward from the landscape.

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Mobil and Montgomery Ward.

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