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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...King's men rairin' at his duff, all the whyles hummin' an' hankerin' at ilka Scottish hizzie that leuks as if she griens a kiutle. Hoch aye, what a collie-shangie! As the fourth day daws, the great ram-feezled bairn gaes spracklin' back to Beigg, ye ken, in a wee drunt. But the primsie lass he left behind shakes her cockernony at him and soon pits some rumble-gumption...
...Insurance Institute reported this week. Breakdown (in billions) of the $16.7 billion total: doctors, $4.8; hospitals, $4.5; prescriptions and other medicines and appliances, $4.4; dentists, $1.7; miscellaneous (including private nurses, nursing homes, chiropractors, eyeglasses), $1.3. In addition, the public laid out $5.9 billion for health and hospitalization premiums, got back $4.7 billion in benefits. The insurance covered 123 million people for hospital expenses, in million for surgical, 17 million for major medical...
...giant Snowy River hydroelectric project, an endeavor so vast that its $1 billion price tag is equal to 20% of the entire national product of ten years ago. Another signal of change: an upsurge in immigration has brought 1,500,000 hard-working "New Australians," mostly from Europe, to back the "Old Australians" in a forced-draft development of their U.S.-sized continent...
...Mitchell, "will give some short-term gain to its profit-and-loss statement, but it won't have any profit statement to worry about by 1970." Mitchell knows from experience that research pays off at a prodigious rate. "That means that $100 spent on research will bring back anywhere from $2,500 to $5,000 over a 25-year period. Keep the research going and those other fellows will copy." In General Telephone & Electronics' future: electro-luminescent wall panels, a single telephone-radio-TV communications system for the home, machines that translate foreign languages...
...challenge from the world is plain, and so is the solution. "If one thing is clear," says Standard Oil (N.J.) Chairman Eugene Holman. "it is that we cannot go back. Weary slogans, old patterns of thought will not be too useful in the 1960s." As Holman and many another U.S. businessman knows, the growth of the U.S. was not accomplished by old patterns of thought. It was accomplished by new ideas and experimentation, by resourcefulness and eagerness...