Predictions of 2000 economy and society from Brookings work
The Brookings Institution foresees eightfold food spending, sixteenfold housing, fortyfold apparel, twenty sixfold health and education, and eighty threefold recreation and travel outlays by 2000. It envisions a tall, athletic woman in synthetic clothing shaping modern life and vast demographic shifts toward cities and suburbs. Medical advances target cancer, aging, and public health, with surgery eradicating many disabilities and polio halted before 2000.
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Brookings Institution
Sunday's Puzzle and 1950s Future Visions Mix
A chaotic OCR puzzle page blends a large crossword clue list with speculative 2000AD predictions. It muses on civil aviation, radio TV fusion, space cities, flying suburbs, automatic kitchens, and a future society balancing technology with labor and education trends.
Record Gold Flow Leaves Country
New York reports that in 1950 the United States saw record gold outflow, with total holdings still above 10 billion dollars at year end. The annual loss exceeded 1.5 billion, far surpassing 1944 outflow, while gold stockpiles remained higher than late 1949 and late 1934 levels despite the decline.
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Pacific Coast
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Legless Veteran Finds His House Tailormade in Cleveland
Cleveland reports Lucky, a legless World War II veteran, has specially designed houses for disabled vets. Stanley Rejier Jn. is even luckier, locating a tailormade home suited to his needs. He cannot navigate stairs narrow doorways and halls of an ordinary house.
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