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During the war, men in the U.S. Army got better psychiatric care than any large group of people ever had before. If they needed a psychiatrist, they were, for the most part, able to get one quickly, easily -and free. The peacetime picture is very different. The cost of treatment can be staggering. A psychoanalysis usually costs at least $10 an hour, possibly $25 or even $50. At five times a week for 100 weeks (an analysis can easily go on that long), the total cost may run to $5,000 or more. At the Menninger Foundation, the minimum charge...
...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...
...movement that sounded like another stiff price boost in steel got started quietly last week. Blaming increases in the cost of processing, Detroit's Great Lakes Steel Corp. raised its "extra charges" (i.e., for size adjustments, heat treating, pickling, etc.) on hot-rolled sheet and strip steel by $3 to $15 a ton. Next day U.S. Steel boosted its prices on alloys, and Allegheny-Ludlum said that it would charge more for "several of our special grades...
Both Big Steel and Allegheny-Ludlum said that the bulk of their production would not be affected. But the boost in sheet and strip, which are used mainly in autos, refrigerators, washing machines and other such items, would certainly be painful to users. One bodymaker estimated that the cost of an auto made from steel bought from Great Lakes (which supplies about one-sixth of the industry's flat-rolled steel) would go up about...
Well Off. In Indianapolis, Lifer Walter Seward, paroled from the Indiana State Prison after a total of 22 years, was so shocked at the high cost of living that he persuaded the Division of Correction to send him back to jail...