Word: ward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into periods timed to the minute. Doctors, nurses, attendants, psychiatric workers, clinical psychologists, and experts in various kinds of therapy went to work on a five-day, 75-hour week. The men were up at 6 a.m. and in bed by 9 p.m. On Saturdays they cleaned up the ward ("ward hygiene"); some went to sports events (to keep in touch with what well people were doing). Sundays they got ready for visitors...
...many a U.S. businessman marched in seven-league boots. Charles E. Wilson's General Motors turned in the biggest profits of any single U.S. company (estimated $425 million), and by tying wage increases to the cost of living, showed a statesmanlike concept of management-labor relations. Montgomery Ward's Sewell Avery put on his own special one-man show; since midyear, he had fired or accepted the resignations of his president and seven other executives, but he still turned in the biggest profits (about $65 million) in "Monkey" Ward's history...
...plot of the movie is the true story of Mary Jane Ward, as taken from her book. It begins with her first realization that she is in an insane asylum. The movie then traces her gradual recovery through two relapses to an eventual release. As she moves through several stages of the asylum on her way to improvement, groups in all conditions of insanity surround her, from Bedlam-like unfortunates to the mildly eccentric...
March. In Plymouth, Mass., a charge of intoxication was filed against Church Organist Edward Ward, who had aroused the suspicion of the police by rendering the St. Louis Blues on the Unitarian Church bells...
Under the Roof. Defense Secretary Forrestal has insisted from the beginning that unification must be gradual. It is, he said, like trying to bring General Motors, U.S. Steel, Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward together under one roof. As the Hoover Commission noted, he had, after a year and a half of trying, made some "substantial progress." Some items...