Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blood chemistry tests and X rays, raise the average bill to $169.73, almost double the 1946 average. ¶ Although the annual total of patients per bed has gone up 11% in the nine years, rapid turnover has actually decreased the daily percentage of available beds in use. While demand for beds fluctuates widely, costly overhead remains the same. For example, 61 Chicago area hospitals reported that the percentage of maternity unit beds occupied ranged from 37% to 101% in one year, with the same full staff on hand throughout...
...University of Wisconsin gave out the week's oddest statistic on the changing physique of the American male student. In 1926 the university's dormitories for men had only standard 6½-ft. beds. Today, because of student demand, 96 out of 1,400 beds are seven-footers. If things go on as they are, added Wisconsin, future rooms will just have to be made bigger to accommodate the bigger beds. ¶ For those worried about the nation's much publicized classroom shortage, the American School and University had some cheering news: last year the U.S. spent...
Other general practitioners are often less fortunate. Ninety percent of a young G.P.'s new patients in Philadelphia's white-collar Roxborough district are "floaters" with imagined ailments, who drift from one doctor to the next, demand "miracle" drugs and time-consuming examinations. Moreover, a city generalist competes with company and union-sponsored health centers as well as other G.P.s, and must augment his income from private practice by working for the city and a downtown insurance company...
...meet growing demand, said he, the steel industry must expand its 128-million-ton ingot capacity by about 18.5 million tons in the next five years, at a cost of $3.4 billion. The only way to get enough cash, said he, is by a big boost in steel prices...
...Though inventories currently total 20% of the U.S. output of goods and services, most experts think they are needed to supply an expanding economy. In 1939 about $20 billion worth of inventories was adequate; in 1956 the U.S. needs four times as much to make sure that booming consumer demand is satisfied. With fore casts of a gross national product of $403 billion for 1956 (up $16 billion from 1955), inventories will creep still higher to keep pace with future sales. Moreover, because of increased distribution efficiency, the all-important ratio of inventories to sales has been dropping, reducing...