Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country doctors work together in a clinic, says Pressly, both doctors and patients are better off. The doctors can take time off for vacations or for refresher courses; the patients get more thorough care. A general practitioner, he thinks, can take care of 85% of the people who are sick; only about 15% need specialists. In his early days, 90% of his practice was home calls, 10% office. Now the percentage is nearly reversed. Says he: "People realize they get more for their money in a clinic or a doctor's office...
Podiatrists may now give local (but not general) anesthetics, prescribe sedatives like barbiturates (not narcotics), perform minor surgery. They treat not only corns, bunions and calluses, but also foot symptoms of gout, arthritis and circulation disturbances. One of their most important jobs is teaching diabetics proper foot care, to reduce the chances of gangrene. Podiatrists practice in 40 hospitals in New York State, in about...
...elder statesman of U.S. industry last week took a look into 1949-and blinked his eyes at the rosy glow. The reason for the glow, thought General Motors' Afired P. Sloan Jr., was the continued high rate of spending for plant expansion and new construction, which now accounts for about 6% of the gross national product. Said he: "As long as that [expansion] continues ... I am sure that the impact on consumer goods and durable goods will give us a high level of national income...
Geddes spent 30 years building a huge organization (2,200 employees at the peak) that turned out everything from costume designs for circus elephants to General Motors' famed Futurama exhibit at the New York World's Fair. Geddes also designed more than 200 musical comedies, operas, and straight dramatic productions, and produced some first-rate hits (e.g., Dead End). The overhead ($884,000 a year) and high blood pressure forced him to shut up shop in 1946, and later take to his bed for six months. When he got up, he started again (at 55) with a staff...
...lacking in proportion. Some of the major poets and novelists seem to be there merely for the record, their best known lines omitted. It is human enough to give Churchill top rating among the new entries with 9½ columns, and to give quotable Ogden Nash four, but in general | the space allotted to each "name" seems arbitrary, to say the least...