Word: warde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Does Fair Trade bring higher or lower prices? Last week, after a year-long study of the question, University of Chicago Economist Ward S. Bowman Jr. reported that Fair Trade tends to raise retail prices. As part of his research, Bowman picked a typical product, toothpaste, and 'checked retail prices all over the nation. Conclusion: in the 40 states that have Fair Trade laws, toothpaste costs 2% more than in free-trading states...
LOUIS WOLFSON, who lost his proxy battle for Montgomery Ward & Co. (TIME, May 2), is still buying stock in the company. Wolfson says that "things are looking up" under the new management, reports that he has bought another 12,000 shares to bring his holdings to 59,000 shares...
Tourist Snapshots. One of Gunther's chief qualities is his tourist's knack for relating the far-off to the familiar. Thus, the muffled women of Tangier are like "wads of Kleenex," while some native chiefs remind him of Chicago ward heelers. Often he exaggerates and occasionally he is downright naive, but when it comes to picturesque details, Reporter Gunther has them all. "Giraffes," he reports from East Africa, "intertwine their necks when making love." And he is equally informative on human marriage customs...
...Johnson said there are enough manuscripts of known date to furnish plentiful clues to the poet's handwriting, and an exhaustive handwriting analysis has been prepared by Theodora van Wagenen Ward which has dated a poem within a given year...
...middle of June the varsity baseball team recovered from a 5-1 defeat from Yale to defeat the Eli's on their home diamond, 4-2, in the final game of a three-game serias. Andy Ward was the opening pitcher in the defeat. Captain elect Rossano had the honors in the last game. Harvard lost the first game in the EIBL play-offs...