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...Alabama hospital bed carries with it no assurance of adequate care. The state's funds work out at about $1.80 a day for each patient. Local and voluntary moneys boost the total to $4.50, whereas in hard-pressed Mississippi the total is $6.24, and in Tennessee $10. Only three of Alabama's eight sanatoriums are equipped for surgery, and some give streptomycin and isoniazid only to patients who can pay for them. One 65-bed hospital has no registered nurse; a practical nurse does her best with unskilled help...
...basis of the new BLS index, it reached 114.5 of the 1947-49 average (.2% more than the previous high recorded last August*), chiefly because of a 1.4 increase in food prices. For 100,000 workers in aircraft and glass plants, the March to June rise means a wage boost of i? to 2? an hour...
...Wall Street has done virtually nothing to tell the U.S. public about them. All told, the New York Stock Exchange and brokerage houses spend only $3,000,000 a year on advertising, compared with $22 million spent by the insurance industry and $61 million by commercial banks, largely to boost savings accounts...
BROKERAGE fees for traders on the New York Stock Exchange are expected to go up an average 15% this fall after members approve the boost to help them offset the rising cost of doing business...
With his daily output at 700 cars, up 165 from last year's average, Nordhoff has set a new goal. By adding a third production line, he hopes to boost daily output to 800 cars by year's end, is aiming for Volkswagen's millionth postwar...