Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amount of floor space for "facilities and conveniences." A cold-water faucet in the hallway rated .25 square meters. Private flush toilets rated four square meters, non-flushing toilets only two. Adding up the "corrected" square meters of the three schedules and multiplying the sum by the fixed charge per meter, he arrived at his monthly rent...
...students had arrived by stagecoach, farm wagon and shanks' mare. Board, reported the chancellor, "need not exceed 80? per week." They ate mostly bread and milk, an occasional fish from Lake Mendota, and, as a "rare treat," roast potatoes. A room in North Hall, the dormitory "on the hill," cost $5 a term; furniture "new from the store," another $8. Students had to draw and fetch their own water from the university well, chop down campus trees for firewood, and raid nearby farms for straw for their mattresses. Daily chapel was compulsory; so were six hours of daily attendance...
...American Psychiatric Association has set minimum standards for mental hospitals: at least one psychiatrist for every 150 patients, one graduate nurse for every 40, one attendant for every eight, an outlay of at least $5 a day per patient for food, care and treatment. Says Deutsch: "Not a single state mental hospital in the U.S. meets, or has ever met, even the minimum standards set by A.P.A. in all major aspects of care and treatment." The current average in state mental hospitals, he says, is $1.25 a day per patient...
...consumers, most of them were welcome. Food, which had risen so much higher than anything else, was finally dropping enough to be a help to budget-bound housewives; meat, butter, eggs, etc. were all down. Dun & Bradstreet's weekly index of the wholesale food price (per pound) of 31 items slid to $6.33, lowest in 17 months, and 14% below July's alltime high...
Transcontinental hopes to deliver 340 million cu. ft. of gas a day, at a cost of approximately 31? per 1,000 cu. ft. This is so far below the present cost of manufactured gas in New York that nine utility companies in the metropolitan area have already signed up as customers...