Word: scarcer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dentistry had assured Hay that such a hospital was not only desirable but necessary. An estimated 9,000 patients annually need admission to Los Angeles' general hospitals for dentistry, though only 5,000 actually go in. With the city's population zooming, general-hospital beds are getting scarcer. Besides, most of its general hospitals dislike the cavity trade, and dentists are low men on the medical totem pole, with no admission priviliges. Patients who need hospitalization for major dentistry are listed as: the bedridden, the mentally retarded, many psychiatric patients, business and professional men who want to save...
...sales tax to 4% and avoid an income tax, refuse to release the veterans' fund until Williams agrees. Still adamant. Soapy Williams offered a compromise. The compromise, it turned out, was his original offer restated, and it was turned down. As the deadlock continued and funds got scarcer, the Detroit News crystallized a common sentiment about the poverty of statesmanship: "Party leadership has shown it cannot lead, except into disaster. It's time for men of better will to get to work...
...benefit through increased productivity. In 1957 productivity rose barely 1%, lagging behind wages. In 1958 it should rise sharply, not only because the new plants built by industry are more efficient but because increased competition for jobs should make everyone work a little better. Moreover, as jobs grow scarcer, wages will flatten out. While the Autoworkers' Walter Reuther still talks of demanding a four-day workweek and other plums, wage demands will be tougher to win from management, whose bargaining position has been strengthened by the economic downturn and the scandals in labor's own house that have...
...measures are designed to make money scarcer and more expensive," he said, "to make it harder both to earn profits and to get wage increases." Thorneycroft announced that the government would veto all wage increases for its own employees in the ministries and nationalized industries, hoped thereby to set an example for private industry. Further wage hikes, warned Thorneycroft, "would be a disaster to this country." Snapped the Labor Party's economic spokesman, Harold Wilson: "A straight declaration of war" against the trade unions...
...also refused to issue fast tax write-off certificates to help expand production of steel and five other goods (commercial aircraft, aviation fuel, titanium melting, titanium processing and taconite iron ore). The defense expansion goals have been filled, said Flemming. Actually, more plant expansion now would make steel even scarcer by diverting it to new plants that would not be in production until...