Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hock vowels are hilarious. The songs are chain-gang, camp-meeting U.S. imports: Wabash Cannonball, Frankie and Johnny, I Shall Not Be Moved. The musicians generally are amateurs, paid with coffee and Cokes, belting out their rockabilly on a couple of guitars, a banjo and a bass fiddle (sometimes store-bought, more often conjured out of an empty tea chest, a broomstick and a knotted string...
...home, Mrs. Kennedy has sat in at almost all of the Teamster hearings to watch her husband at work. In the hearing room, Kennedy took a terrier grip on recalcitrant witnesses, accusing, badgering and interrupting in his high-pitched, bean-and-cod-accented voice, drawing on a remarkable store of information...
...language" so they can interpret "directions indicated by hand or head signals," "the sign language of animals" and "traffic lights." Under the major function of "developing economic competence," they may learn about "returning things borrowed from fellow classmates promptly" (social studies), "operating audiovisual equipment" (science), "telling how a department store facilitates trade" (mathematics) and "observing 'Do It Yourself programs" (practical arts). Social studies can also include "greeting parents and other members of the family with affection," while science can mean "proper methods of ventilating home...
...sales totaled $1,045,767,458, up 7.8% for the year, and earnings edged forward to $35,844,479. Later in the week Barr and his management team showed one of the reasons why. In Portsmouth, Ohio, they snipped the ribbons on Ward's first new retail store in the U.S. since 1941. It is a modern, $1,500,000, four-story affair, alive with the new-fangled customer conveniences alien to Ward's old-fashioned approach of yesteryear-Muzak, air conditioning, gleaming counter displays...
Both sales and store highlighted Ward's fast comeback under John Barr, 48, who took over the company after crusty old Chairman Sewell Avery surrendered his one-man rule two years ago (TIME, May 23, 1955). As boss. Barr's first move was to recruit a new force of officers; he gave them a stock option plan as incentive, equipped them with real, independent authority and then set to work on a new-look for the company. In quick succession, Barr formed a new department to pump life into merchandising and displays at Ward's 562 retail...