Word: warde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind him functioned the best political organization in Italy, much of it his own making. Inheriting the mantle of party leadership just before the death of Italy's great postwar statesman. Alcide de Gasperi, in 1954. Fanfani reorganized and rejuvenated the party from the ward level up. For this year's campaign -the first the party has had to fight without the magic name of De Gasperi -Fanfani organized 120,000 Christian Democratic militants into cells of three people each (one woman, one young man, one cell chief). Student organizations, trade-union groups, para-religious organizations...
...decks, the industry is expected to operate at an even lower rate than usual during the summer, may shut down earlier, stay closed longer when it retools for 1959 models. Counting heavily on a cleanup of the '58 models and the popularity of the new '59 cars, Ward's Automotive Reports hopefully predicted that "factory unemployment gloom will be quickly followed by a fourth-quarter burst of production prosperity that may rival...
...Sick Children-the first member of Britain's royal family to be treated in a public institution. Later, minus tonsils and adenoids, Anne greeted her parents Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, remained aloof from the carping of the London press, which weepily urged that the "lonely patient in Ward Dy" be allowed to play with the other kiddies...
...three suburban stores, doubled total store space, pushed sales up some 35% (fiscal 1957: $219,011,532). A onetime professor of marketing at the University of Chicago, Palmer joined Field's in 1936, became president after he turned down an offer to become board chairman of Montgomery Ward. ¶ Lee Talley, 56, president of Coca-Cola Export Corp. since 1954, was elected president of the Coca-Cola Co. to succeed William E. Robinson, 57, who moved up to chairman and will remain chief executive officer. Son of a minister, Alabama-born Talley went to Coca-Cola as a salesman...
...almost as big a lush as Diana, and together they rapidly drank up all the money she had made and inherited. According to the script, she wound up doing take-offs (including clothes) in a Manhattan dive, and one night she ran amuck and wound up in the alcoholic ward. That's where the "unholy ghost" (as Author Frank is known on Publisher's Row) caught up with her and invited her to take the bestseller cure...