Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the world, there was clear and heartening evidence that the American conception of a modern, modified capitalism, in which benefits are shared by all, had been wholeheartedly adopted by the Old World, which once restricted the benefits to a comparative few. Anyone with eyes to see could find the symbols of this capitalism in 1959. It was a year when...
...often undetectable process killed 40%-50% of patients over 50, who died after fractures of the leg, thigh or pelvis. So Drs. Simon Sevitt and Nrall G. Gallagher took 300 consecutive admissions of patients over 55 with broken thighs, and treated half of them with the anticoagulant phenindione to see whether it would prevent blood clotting and the fatal lung damage...
With production high and unemployment low (4% of the work force), the forecasters see good business ahead. Tight credit may cause the housing industry to slip slightly to a rate of 1,200,000 homes. But Detroit's automakers have visions of a 7,000,000-car year in 1960, with 18%-20% of the market in the compacts. Steelmen forecast a total of 125 million tons of steel next year, up nearly 35 million tons. Borg-Warner's Norge Division President Judson Sayre expects big increases in the appliance industry-8% for clothes dryers, 10% for refrigerators...
...they gaze into the decade of the 19605, the economists see a population growth for the U.S. that will push the number of Americans past the 200 million mark by 1970, a population so much in need of homes, clothes, autos and all the other things that Americans expect as their birthright that the U.S. will be ripe for a $700 billion economy in ten years...
Following the Plot. In McClusky, N. Dak., two farm hands were caught stealing grain to raise enough money to see the movie The Ten Commandments...