Word: ward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...others." Barracks life was even more indigestible: "The thought of me in that little bed, with 15 other blokes around ... I felt real sick. It was grim, man-just grim." Within 48 hours Terry's delicate psyche collapsed, and the brass carted him off gently to a hospital ward...
Apathy toward political issues and stereotyped views of parties are strong components of the voter's psychology, according to preliminary findings of the Ward 4 survey, a joint project of the Harvard Young Republican and Eisenhower Clubs...
From a Chicago hospital bed last week, cancer-stricken Sewell Lee Avery, 85, cut his final tie to Montgomery Ward & Co. as a new era of expansion began for the giant mail-order house. Avery, the reactionary chairman of Ward's for 23 years until he resigned under pressure in 1955, finally quit as a director. At the annual meeting, shortly after the news was announced, Chairman John Andrew Barr, 50, told about the aggressive expansion program. It will use up the last of the $226 million that Sewell Avery hoarded from 1947 to 1955 in his belief that...
This year and next, Ward's will build 30 retail department stores, about 85 catalogue stores, four distribution centers. By the end of 1963, it will add a total of 90 new retail stores, 205 new catalogue stores, ten new distribution centers. Gearing for the expansion, Ward's boosted Executive Vice President Paul M. Hammaker, 56, to president; Chairman Barr gave up the presidency, remains chief executive...
...Ward's weighty wager on the future will cost $500 million over the next five years. It has reason for confidence; Ward's sales (1958 total: $1.1 billion) rode 19% ahead of last year's in February and March, will probably show a 14% gain for April, "We are on the eve of a decade of great economic activity," said Chairman Barr. "We would not embark on a program of this scope if we did not have great faith in the future of our economy...