Word: working
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with her own mystical version of the Protestant faith. Mother Ann insisted on strict communal life, with all property held in common, equality of the sexes combined with absolute celibacy, and simplicity and directness in all things. "Be hand-minded," she would urge. "Put your hands to work and your hearts to God." Soon there were 19 self-contained communities scattered through New England, New York, Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Every Shaker practiced a craft with particular diligence, producing everything except babies. They have now almost died out for lack of new recruits...
...News-Sentinel, Whitehead will produce three columns a week on anything that comes to mind, while continuing to work on his next book. This week his first column began: "A wise man once said that home is where the heart is, and that's what I've decided after years of knocking around this troubled, exciting old world. No one was more surprised than I when the realization finally came that 'home' was back here in these ancient and beautiful hills that seem to bound a little world of their...
Despite the backlog of work, the SEC is still expanding its operations. To educate investors to the dangers of phony promotions, the commission has been sending out posters describing the work of boiler-room operators. Now it is preparing 15-and 30-second shorts for radio and TV, warning about stock-market swindlers. Says SEC's Windels: "Fraudulent promoters can do their work so fast that the SEC often cannot stop initial damage. But if the public is warned, then these crooks have far less room to work...
...license departments, gourmet and shoe-repair shops. By the end of 1958, Barr had reduced Ward's cash hoard from $327 million to $94.7 million. Says he: "By the end of 1959, we will have put all of our excess cash, previously invested in low-earning securities, to work in higher-earning merchandising assets...
Barr's transformation has also wrought changes in his personal life. He has less time to spend with his wife and four children, putter in his rose garden. He spends evenings poring over work in the library of his twelve-room house in suburban Winnetka, Ill. His life has become almost as self-centered as Avery's on the contents of a secret closet in his Chicago office. The closet contains charts of the company and the U.S. economy. In Avery's time the projections all went down; now all the lines go sharply...