Abstract :
The price of everything purchased today — whether it be clothing, food, housing, or an automobile — is higher, as the result of a steady increase over the years. Publications are no exception. Since the bimonthly publications were inaugurated in July and August of 1952, there has been a considerable inflationary increase in the costs of printing, paper, salaries, and overhead. Also, rapid advances in all phases of technology have resulted in an increased volume of technical material to be published in order to keep pace with the times. For example, when the bimonthly publications were inaugurated in 1952, the total annual volume in a compact format was 2,068 pages; whereas in the same compact format for the calendar year 1959, the total volume will be more than 3,500 pages.
