1. Sears Modern Homes
... 22, 1931 Chicago Tribune stated that in 1930, there had been a 53% drop in home construction (housing starts) nationwide. Catalogues and Counters: A History of Sears Roebuck and Company (Boris Emmet & John Jeuck) states that sales of Sears Homes also dropped, from their peak of $12 million in 1929 - to $8 million in 1931, $6 million in 1932 and $3.6 million in 1933. The Wall ... , because Sears held mortgages on so many of their houses. In Illinois, I've had success looking under each of these names: Walker O. Lewis (up to 1929/30), Nicholas Wieland, sometimes misspelled as Weiland (1929...
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