Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctor can have a maximum of 4,000 patients on his list, which would give him a gross income of $13,600. In a few regions, there are more doctors than necessary (e.g., one to each 1,000 patients along Britain's south coast). The result is that doctors' income there is low. Though Bevan could raise their fees, he refuses to do so in these cases because he wants the south coast physicians to move to "underdoctored" areas...
Script (circ. 27,000), the West Coast imitation of The New Yorker, had almost written "The End" last Christmas, when the magazine's backers (including Moviemaker Sam Goldwyn and General Manager Bob Smith of the Los Angeles Daily News) pulled out. Publisher Ik Shuman, once an editor of The New Yorker, bought the monthly from them for $1, and tried to keep it going. But production costs were too high, and revenue too low. Last week Shuman sadly put the final issue to bed. Then he called his creditors together to write a P.S. to Script. Debts...
Another West Coast regional magazine, Pacific Pathways (circ. 21,000), a four-color vacation magazine aimed at the California tourist trade, came to the end of the road. Last week, it sold its title and subscription lists to Fortnight (circ...
Practically speaking, he who applies to Adams as first choice has a better than average chance of getting accepted. Since the demise of the old Gold Coast, more and more gullible freshmen are being wooed to the suburban houses, their courtyards and river views, leaving the waiting list at Adams one of the smallest. This is a mystery to the upperclass resident who finds himself ensconced in a myriad of conveniences and surrounded by a host of interesting and individualistic compatriots in his A-House home...
...failure of the westerlies had the opposite effect in the east. A high-pressure area (the Bermuda High) was unusually strong and hung persistently off the coast. The wind circulating clockwise around it brought warm, moist air from over the Gulf Stream. Unchecked by the westerlies, it penetrated far into the interior, keeping the western cold away and giving the eastern U.S. a balmy "maritime" winter...