Word: fields
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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This week BLS field workers and economists are hard at work collecting figures on consumer buying in seven test cities to see which new items should be put in the index. Clague has already decided to add frozen foods, home permanents, television sets (one family in three in cities where TV is available now owns a set, says BLS). Soft drinks will count more in the statistical weighting because they are "now a part of national life." More weight will be allowed for mechanical refrigeration, less for ice. The proportion for rent will be increased because of the fading...
...than forward-area hospitals had ever been before, they did major surgery, much of which would once have had to wait weeks or months. Even so, the emphasis was on speed, to get the wounded on the way home as fast as possible. From the mobile units and other field hospitals, within a week after the war's outbreak, helicopters and grasshopper planes flew the most seriously wounded back to evacuation hospitals. Many a man whose life would have been bounced out of him in a long jeep ride over goat trails through the Korean mountains...
...kept trying to synthesize compound E, or something like it. At last Kendall and others succeeded, and late in 1948, a colleague at the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Philip Hench, directed the first injections of cortisone to human victims of rheumatoid arthritis. The results were dramatic. Suddenly, a vast new field of medical research was opened...
...freshman soccer team tied a powerful Andover, 1 to 1, on the Blue's rain-swept field Saturday. This gives the Yardlings their third tie against Andover in three consecutive years...
...Crimson started pressing all over the field, but could not break through the final Jeff defense...