By 1974, the electromedical industry had closed the gap separating its revenue production with that of the X-ray apparatus industry
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Wholesale billings for the overall optical industry increased from $400 million in 1959 to $900 million by 1969, and then doubled to nearly $2 billion by the end of the 1970s.
U.S. industrial patternmaking emerged as a separate industry from the 1950s through the 1970s.
agriculture to industry.
During the 1970s, the air quality index in Los Angeles was often very poor due to high levels of pollution from vehicles and industry.
The packaging machinery industry shifted to leaner production methods requiring just-in-time (JIT) inventory management and as consumers rebelled against excessive and expensive product packaging.
The surge in demand from electrical utilities, which comprised over 50 percent of coal industry sales, led to two of the most dynamic decades in U.S. coal history in the 1960s and 1970s.
During the 1970s, the HMO industry grew by approximately 25 percent, serving about 4 percent of the U.S. population by 1980. The HMO industry achieved its greatest period of growth during the 1980s.
Although the major peripheral product segments experienced solid growth in the late 1990s, conditions changed during the early 2000s, as the economy worsened.
Rapid technological advances during and after World War II paved the way for a massive synthetic fiber industry expansion during the 1960s and 1970s.
As the industry progressed past the mid-1970s, when it was mired for several years in a global recession, its growth during the 1980s continued at a moderate rate.