Word: ward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...badly slumping February auto sales, when poor weather kept buyers out of the showrooms. With the push of hard selling (see Autos), sales were on the rise in March. But new-car inventories of 887,000 were so high that carmakers were not planning to step up production. Ward's Reports counted March production at 357,000 cars, predicted the same rate through the April-June quarter...
...called the Chicago Young Men's Society for Religious Improvement, at a meeting over a lakefront store just one street away from gangland's "Hairtrigger Block." By the end of the first year, the organization had grown to 355 members, chalked up (thanks to traveling Preacher Henry Ward Beecher's drawing power) the tidy profit...
...After Duty. In Rochester, Ward-will and Herbert Benzing, 74 and 76, gathered to celebrate brother Joseph's goth birthday, postponed the party until evening because brother Albert, 86, could not take the day off from work...
...WARD Anaheim, Calif...
...predicts that the bull will soon jump to his feet and start pawing the ground again. He will first need a heavy feeding of richer sales and earnings. Yet many investors are buying such stocks as U.S. Steel, Montgomery Ward, Libbey-Owens-Ford for the long pull. Says San Francisco Investment Broker George Davis of Davis, Skaggs & Co.: "These stocks are being bought by men with eyes over the hump, while the others are all moaning about 'what...