Word: ward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John F. Ward said that slides of a cross-section of lung tissue from the dead fetus revealed a "lack of uniformity" in the expansion of the air spaces, which he said was evidence of respiration of air by the fetus...
Under examination by Flanagan, Ward testified that in a stillborn fetus air cells in the lung are uniformly expanded with fluid secreted by the lungs...
...Ward said that slides of lung tissue from the fetus involved in the Edelin case displayed collapsed, partially-collapsed and expanded alveoli, or air spaces. He concluded that the state of the lung cells was due to respiration of air by the fetus before it died...
Although the combination of inflation and recession has been squeezing profits hard at a number of big chains -among them Sears, J.C. Penney, Montgomery Ward and Kresge-U.S. retailers as a whole are not in as bad shape as Grant's troubles might suggest. Kendrick, 61, a former Grant's floorman who took over as chairman last September, believes that the chain's slide can be reversed before too long. He plans to cut back to a "hard core" of 900 stores by 1977, slash capital spending by 90% in 1975, and return...
...American transport Otranto was too weak to abandon ship after colliding with another vessel during an Atlantic storm. It sank with a loss of 431 lives. Aboard the troop ship Leviathan, a young Assistant Secretary of the Navy named Franklin Roosevelt suddenly keeled over. From an overcrowded Chicago hospital ward a deathly feverish 16-year-old who had lied about his age to become a Red Cross ambulance driver was sent home to improve his chances for recovery. His name was Walt Disney...