Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Funerals are getting weepier, and a good thing, too, according to the executive secretary of the National Funeral Directors Association. Speaking in Milwaukee to the 75th annual convention of the Wisconsin Funeral Directors Association, Howard C. Raether said that the trend is now away from the cut-and-dried "memorial service" and back toward more ceremonial funerals. "Sociologists, clergymen and psychologists point out the therapy a funeral service provides for the survivors," said Raether...
...Trend to Drugs. There may have been as much heat as light on Surgeon Bailey's operating table, but the trend toward new directions was illustrated by several other speakers who had proposals to make rather than criticisms. Montreal's famed Stressor Hans Selye (TIME, Oct. 9, 1950) flew in to declare his faith that physiological change is related to emotional disturbance. Recent research shows that three classes of hormones can create such varied "psychic" disorders as pathological confusion or excitement, chronic fatigue (neurasthenia), deep depression, psychoses or neuroses during pregnancy, convulsive seizures, paralytic "spells," and even degenerative...
...dominant trend in psychiatry's new direction, it became plain, is the search for psychiatric answers and cures in the field of chemistry. A score of researchers reported progress with ataraxic or tranquilizing drugs (TIME, March...
Customers Wanted. Not all U.S. businessmen were as cheerful as Sunny Sinny Weeks. March figures on manufacturers' sales and inventories turned up a disturbing trend: inventories went up $500 million over February to $47.4 billion, $4.1 billion over March of last year. Sales of all manufactured goods slipped $100 million below February, and new orders dropped $700 million. However, both sales and new orders for March were still running ahead of March 1955. though the ratio of inventories to sales has been creeping up since last fall...
...While fusty critics of public education might worry about the perilous state of high-school Latin, physics and mathematics, Teachers College, Columbia University, was all aglow over another trend. Driver education, reported T.C. happily, is now "the fastest-growing program in the country." Today four out of ten high schools teach it, making students "safer members of traffic society...