Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instead of emptying the 1,800 beds in Florida's four TB hospitals, the early-release program has kept them from 86% to 96% full by bringing in newly detected cases for quick drug treatment. (Florida reflects the national trend. From 1954 to 1956 the nation's TB beds, excluding those of the Veterans Administration, declined by only 8%, from...
...hour, the corporation is in a position to increase its net profit from $348.1 million in 1956 to $437 million in 1957." The steel industry, charged Dave McDonald, is trying to make the union a "scapegoat" for the "irresponsibility of pricing policies which have contributed to the rising trend of prices for more than a decade...
Marine Interlude. The 1915-34 occupation by the U.S. Marines reversed the trend, gave Haiti hospitals, telephones and political peace. The paradoxically gentle side of the Haitian nature emerged. From the Marine departure to President Paul Magloire's ouster last year, Haiti had only four Presidents, a modern record. But as the occupation memory faded, the technical services and the civic sense declined, and chaos reclaimed the land. Seven regimes have ruled in the past six months...
Picture Windows. The trend to mass-appeal and family boating is nowhere more evident than in the design of big cabin cruisers. Of Chris-Craft's line of 68-odd stock models (up to 56 ft.), only 16 boats could be called utilitarian fishing craft-all the rest are designed for snappy good looks and family fun. The yachtsman's wife, not the yachtsman himself, is the customer the boatyards want to please. Says a Chris-Craft executive: "Instead of portholes, we have the marine counterpart of the picture window. Men were satisfied with heads and galleys which...
Similar widely publicized meetings last fall drew eight times as many volunteers as ever before in the history of this program to help the State's mentally handicapped children. It seems likely that the summer program will continue in this expanding trend. But it is not likely that the supply will cease to beridiculously small compared to the demand...