Word: ward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MONTGOMERY WARD, which has been busy modernizing its old stores since President John A. Barr took over from Sewell Avery last May, is now planning to build new retail stores, the first in 15 years. Barr has already spent $86 million to brighten the chain's 566 retail outlets and add 33 mail order offices, succeeded last year in reversing Ward's four year sales slump. 1955 sales: $970 million...
Without a brilliant performance by goalie Charlie Flynn, who turned in 42 saves, Princeton might have clinched the game in its scrappy second period. The Crimson's usual sore spot, its blue line unit, again could not ward off opposing attacks and usually only Flynn's cautious play was able to keep the varsity within reach of the tiger's brief lead...
...leading British scholars, Herbert L.A. Hart and Mrs. Barbara Ward Jackson, will join the Faculty next year...
...auto industry. In January sales were slow; on Feb. 1 inventories were abnormally high (856,665 unsold cars v. 462,673 in February 1955). Then sales picked up. In February's first ten days they were almost as high as during the same period last year. Last week Ward's Automotive Reports estimated that February sales would total more than 500,000, making it the second-best February in history...
WOLFSON ALLY Alexander Rittmaster resigned from the Montgomery Ward board only one month after Louis Wolfson himself quit. Wolfson's sole remaining Monkey Ward director: Advertising Consultant Bernice Fitz-Gibbon...