Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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State hospitals throughout the U.S. are, in general, scandalously crowded. Thousands of mentally disordered patients are forced to live like animals in bare, foul-smelling rooms. There is an average increase of 12,000 a year in the state hospital population. Today, 41% of all hospital beds (580,273 out of 1,400,318) are for mental patients. The cost is an indication of the care given to "public charges": state hospitals, on the average, spend about $1.50 a day per patient. The cost at Menningers...
...hardest hit by the Government's credit curbs, complained that refrigerators were backing up on them; radio stores were only saved by the boom in television sets. A West Coast furrier, on a scouting trip to New York, discovered that his fellow furriers were keeping their stockrooms bare, rushed home and cut his prices 15-20%. Shoe manufacturers, some of whom had already cut production, were also talking of post-Christmas price cuts as high as $1 a pair. Many another manufacturer who last year had to stall off customers was now ready to deliver...
...which methods of communication are such that bad news from every quarter pounds upon our sensibilities almost hourly, we must doggedly determine to limit to a bare minimum the acceptance of hearsay evidence...
Stretch Mazzone, who earned his nickname at Everett High for the obvious reason, stands six-four in his bare feet, and tips the scales at an even...
This is quite a comedown from a bare five months ago, however, when every major Republican candidate had at least some separate backing here, while the Democrats were split down the middle between Truman and Douglas. HLU jumped into the Democratic rift by backing Truman, but the Young Republican Club stayed aloof from any squabbling amongst their own members...