Word: indexers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hospital's daily charge is not a good index to what a hospital stay actually costs the patient. On the debit side are many additional services for which the patient is billed separately -some hospitals are running six times as many lab tests on patients as they did in 1950. On the credit side is the fact that the average stay in a hospital has been cut from 15 days to ten. This is partly because improved surgery and medical care are sending patients home sooner, even after serious illnesses, and partly because patients now go into a hospital...
People who play with trains have often been hurt, especially people who invest in railroad stocks. The Dow-Jones index of 20 railroad stocks needed a full 35 years to climb back to its 1929 high. But since it passed that mark last February, the rail average has been moving upward, reached an alltime peak of 208.95 three weeks...
...salesman to the world. Since the boy cott began four years ago, British and U.S. investment alone in South Africa has risen 50% to $3.7 billion, South Africa's gross national product has in creased 20% to $8.6 billion, and the Rand Daily Mail's stock market index has nearly quadrupled. With exports of products as varied as wheat and mining machinery running at a record $1.5 billion rate, South Africa boasts an inter national payments surplus of $200 mil lion, could write off its few debts with a mere four months' gold production...
...give A.T.&T. increases, they sometimes find it politic to hold local rates steady but to raise the charges for phone installation and for such extras as color phones. Despite some increases, rates have not risen as much as the overall cost of living. While the U.S. consumer price index has gone up 59% since 1946, local telephone rates have increased 48%; interstate rates have actually dropped 20% since 1940, thanks to a combination of new efficiencies, higher volume of calling and pressures from...
...film was moved mechanically to array the tiny pages in close-packed rows. This miracle of miniaturization, which makes the traditional Lord's Prayer engraved on a pinhead seem downright brobdingnagian, can cram 1,000,000 book pages on a stack of 3-in. by 5-in. index cards about 4 in. high. It could pack all the books in the Library of Congress into six ordinary filing cabinets. To read one of these literary slides, a viewer can use a device similar to a microscope, or the material can be projected in standard page-size on a translucent...