Word: warded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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STOCK-SPLITTING WAVE is rolling higher. Montgomery Ward proposes a 2-for-1 of its 6,502,378 shares (now selling around $100), will also boost its quarterly dividend from 75? to $1 on present shares, and hand out a year-end extra of $1.25. Other splits last week: Federated Department Stores (Boston's Filene's, Manhattan's Bloomingdale's, etc.), which will split 3,598,067 common shares 2-for-1; Phillips-Jones Corp. (shirts, men's wear), which wants to split 263,805 shares...
...Parents habitually come and go during visiting hours. The arrival of dinner wagons for listless appetites is strictly punctual. Everywhere there is white and order: the stiff jackets, smocks, and bandages, the precise reports and charts, the crisp doctors and nurses. Amidst these antiseptic surroundings, in the children's ward of a large metropolitan hospital, spontaneous good times are rare. Someone from outside must bring diversion...
...medical school. A survey shows that of the 124 Volunteers who comprise the entire project, 61 percent are pre-meds and another eight percent are considering the medical profession. The General Hospitals Program provides a close glimpse of the organizational workings of the five hospitals, contact with surgeons, ward doctors, nurses and interns on the job, and some actual experience in caring for the sick and injured...
...Volunteers at MGH form only a segment of the non-trained, unpaid staff of 550 which is directed by a professional volunteer director at the hospital. She coordinates office secretaries, housewives, telephone operators, businessmen, and lately, college students, into an effective clerical and ward detail which takes an immense load off the hospital's budget, not to mention off its staff...
Carl W. Braun '58, pre-medical student, describes the emergency ward at MGH, where he works once each week, as "an on and off business." In the course of a three-hour stretch one evening, Braun remembers helping with two auto accident cases, one Delirium Tremens, two epileptics, a violent neurotic, and three battling cab drivers who had bashed each other's cars and heads...