Word: amas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan for federal health insurance will be opposed by the American Association of Medicine, the two professors said. The AMA's chief concern is that the federal government will be unable to administer state medicine properly. This charge is unwarranted, said Aycock, since the government has succeeded in administering the public health program efficiently thus...
...slim 12 then, a desert torch singer fresh from Syria's Jebel Druse country. But Ama's family frowned on such shamelessness ; they bustled her into marriage with Cousin Emir Hassan, chief of the Druses...
Lance Corporal Tommy McGrath, an ama teur senior welterweight from Cardiff, Wales, was the sole British winner...
...establishing food stockpiles on various Caribbean islands and helping to further a hop-skip-and-jump transportation route which makes use of schooners between the islands. But even some of the schooners, which can make the runs between the islands in daylight, had been machine-gunned by subs. And AMA had made fantastic and grievous mistakes: it sent 3,000 bags of sugar to Puerto Rico (where 400,000 tons are awaiting export); it ordered private exporters to move all flour from gulf ports, then set up its own flour stockpiles in the same ports...
Last year the British were crying for evaporated milk under Lend-Lease, so AMA set out to boost U.S. production from 57.000,000 cases a year to 100,000,000 by the simple device of bidding the price up from $2.63 to $3.55 a case. The price mechanism worked like magic; the goal was reached almost overnight. Then the British found powdered milk could be shipped in one-quarter the space, said they could take only 7,000,000 cases, left AMA holding the bag and afraid of creating a minor panic by getting out of the market...