Word: tennesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dental Hospital has 16 individual "operatories," ten general, and six specially equipped for more difficult surgery. There are dozens of the latest high-speed drills (up to 300,000 r.p.m.), a $40,000 anesthesia setup; such safeguards as visible-image electrocardioscopes, audible heart-tone monitors, pacemakers, defrbrillators and resuscitation gear. Besides specialized laboratories, diet kitchens and sterilization rooms, there are 30 recovery rooms for outpatients. Rooms for inpatients have pushbutton control of draperies and TV sets, plus individual patios. The rates ($50 a day semiprivate, $60 private) are only about half what they would be in general hospitals since they...
...Australians got the first substantial electric power from their giant Snowy River hydroelectric project, an endeavor so vast that its $1 billion price tag is equal to 20% of the entire national product of ten years ago. Another signal of change: an upsurge in immigration has brought 1,500,000 hard-working "New Australians," mostly from Europe, to back the "Old Australians" in a forced-draft development of their U.S.-sized continent...
...France's booming aluminum industry boasts that its technology is second to none. Italy's Pirelli tire and rubber company claims the same. Led by Germany and France, the industrial nations of continental Europe have boosted their gross national product 100% (to $212 billion) in ten years, turn out 250 million tons of coal (17% of the world total), some 65 million tons of steel (20% of the total), 1,500,000 tons of copper, zinc and lead (16% of world total). Across the English Channel, Britain's economy this year alone grew some...
...Britain's Institute of Directors lists 25,000 members; a decade ago there were only 400. Also spreading is the U.S. style of low-markup, high-volume operation. Germany's Mail-Order Magnate Joseph Neckerman has grown into a sort of Teutonic Sears, Roebuck in fewer than ten years. He sells a list of 5,500 items through 22 mail-order stores, 48 special-appliance stores, and by undercutting the competition as much as 25%, tots up sales of $125 million annually. Says Neckerman, expounding a U.S. philosophy: "The consumer is king...
...windows and let in some air." Even the bankers are loosening up: medium-term credits for business are on the rise, consumer credit is climbing fast. Britain removed its credit restrictions in late 1958 and watched consumer debt jump 50% in 1959; France had no credit to speak of ten years ago, now counts more than $400 million. Another symbol of the changing approach to banking: Belgium's Bank of Brussels installed a drive-in window for depositors...