Word: warded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through Disorder. Economist Barbara Ward deplored the "air of platitude, lassitude and repetition" that infuses the affluent world's "war" against poverty. She called for a tax on developed countries equal to 1% of their gross national products. The lien-$17 billion-would go directly to poor lands, and would amount to only one-third of the West's annual increase in combined G.N.P., Dr. Ward contended. "It just means getting richer slower between Christmas and Easter, and that includes Lent. Let us tuck away in one corner of our Christian memory the delicious fact that the English...
Crowded into such blighted slum areas as Manhattan's "Bloody Ould Sixth Ward," the unskilled and uneducated Irishman was the social outcast of the time. Terrorized by slum gangs (the Dead Rabbits and the Patsey Conroys), shunned by native Americans who despised his rough, alien ways, his papist religion and his uncouth brogue, the average Irish immigrant had to work at the most menial and degrading jobs, and he lived in desperate resentment. He certainly had no stake in the Civil War; indeed, it was the news that he would be subjected to a draft lottery, while well-heeled...
Just over a year ago, Chairman Robert Elton Brooker of Montgomery Ward & Co. reached out for a major diversification in his effort to end Wards' long streak of low profits-and was rebuffed. Stockholders of Los Angeles-based MSL Industries Inc., with $116 million per year in sales of everything from industrial fasteners to electronic components, rebelled at fusing their young manufacturing company with a troubled old retailer. Last week Brooker found another possible partner, and this time his prospects looked a lot brighter...
Even with Container Corp. in its fold (and combined revenues of $2.36 billion for last year), Montgomery Ward would still rank third in its field, well behind Sears, Roebuck and a bit below J.C. Penney. In his seven-year struggle to revitalize Wards, Tom Brooker has unabashedly borrowed many tactics from Sears, where he rose to a vice presidency for manufacturing before leaving in 1958 to head appliance-making Whirlpool Corp. He closed marginal outlets, invested much of Wards' pile of idle cash in big new suburban stores, revamped sagging catalog sales, upgraded merchandise lines, established long-term contracts...