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...hard-pressed American house wife may already have suspected the outcome of Robinson's research into the laborsaving qualities of clothes washers, dishwashers, and other automatic devices at home. "The expectation that time on housework would decrease with the advent of more household appliances is not supported by the data," he says dryly...
...fees (up 5.8% last year), which now yield the U.S. doctor an average $28,000 a year. Again, the chief reason is more demand than supply. While the U.S. population has grown by 28% since 1950, the number of private physicians has risen by only 14.3%. Meanwhile, the advent of Medicare and Medicaid has largely freed doctors from the old tradition of under charging needy and elderly patients...
Already 200,000-ton tankers ply the seas; 300,000-ton vessels are on order, and the advent of 500,000-ton jumbo tankers is fast approaching. Even under normal circumstances, such ships slowly foul the sea with oily tank washings, bilge and ballast water...
...counsel, Thomas Greer, appeared before the House Committee on Agriculture in June 1965, when the farm bill was being drafted, and asked that "any farmer who wishes to grow Acala 4-42 without acreage limitation be permitted to do so, provided that prior to the advent of the growing season he waives any right to price supports for that year." Had Mr. Greer's request been heeded, the U.S. would have saved the $1,000,000 paid us, and the economy would have gained a considerable quantity of a cotton of which there is shortage rather than surplus...
...phase refused to touch it with a ten-foot pole." Gingrich set it back on course again, but not without difficulty. "In 1953," he recalls, "our circulation still included people who couldn't read without moving their lips." During the next three years, Esquire accelerated its evolution. The advent of Playboy hastened the process, because Gingrich wished to disassociate his magazine from Playboy and its imitators...