Century of contrasts in the United States says Marlow
In a column from Frederick Maryland dated September 16 1959 James Marlow analyzes American life from prosperity to poverty unemployment and social policy. He contrasts private enterprise with social welfare and notes Sputnik influenced education and the nation’s economic highs and lows including taxes wages and living standards. He references steel production shutdowns in Pittsburgh and the Soviet Union’s impact on public life.
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The Nation’s Hoards and Lively Factories in a Pressing Map
The piece notes broad U S economic scale: 4 69 million businesses, 314 000 miles of paved highways, 39 million passenger cars and 12 million trucks and buses, gasoline use around 54 billion gallons annually with 214 million cars buses and trucks by 1975. TV ownership in 51 million households stands at 83 percent. American farm output per worker has doubled since 1947 with crops this year set for a record.
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State official considers hospital cost reform via new authority
Baltimore AP states State Insurance Commissioner F. Douglas Sears urged forming a state authority with supervisory powers to help Maryland hospitals operate more economically. Sears testified before a legislative committee on rising costs and said such an agency would examine hospital finances with lay civic minded board members and be independent of current agencies.
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Meetings on Aging Problems and Hearings Schedule
State Coordinating Commission on Problems of the Aging will hold meetings next Thursday including 1 pm Employment Committee, 3 pm joint Planning and Survey committees with Maryland Association of University Women and Maryland Federation of Women's Clubs, and 8 pm a Nursing Home hearing in Baltimore City Council Chamber. Gareth Biser joins Gettysburg faculty after graduating from Gettysburg in 1957 and Syracuse University in 1958.
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