Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attract the 7,000 good doctors the VA needs for the next dozen years, General Hawley proposes to use the hospitals near teaching institutions (in Chicago, Boston, New York, etc.) as nuclei where experts can train younger fry. He thinks the VA must come to hiring professors and other experts on a part-time basis-since they could never be hired full-time at VA prices. He proposes a Medical Corps for the VA (instead of the present Civil Service), to make hiring & firing easy...
With an income guaranteed for at least ten years, the Institute hopes to attract the best brains in the field. Memorial's present research staff will form the Institute's nucleus. Instead of hit-or-miss study like much cancer research in the past, the Institute will devote long-term concentration to the most promising clues - which ones, no one is yet ready...
...last week 80,000 workers were on strike, including 5,000 at the Crosley Corp. in Cincinnati, 7,500 at the Southeastern Shipbuilding Corp. in Savannah. There were 40 work stoppages throughout the nation; new ones threatened daily as the old ones ended. Even the oldtime prewar gags to attract picket-line attention reappeared - in Hollywood, of course...
...mainly interested in food and clothing. In one such canoe was what appeared to be an entire family, the mother of which was sitting in the stern, paying no attention to the bartering going on, but rather being apparently deeply engrossed in a copy of TIME. I tried to attract her attention with no luck as she was apparently thoroughly enjoying what she was reading...
...veterans who will be eligible for care in them. But a series of hearings last winter convinced the Senate's Pepper Subcommittee on Wartime Health and Education (TIME, Jan. 15) that buildings are not enough. Preliminary findings: i) salaries in veterans' hospitals are too low to attract good doctors and nurses (doctors start at $3,200); 2) "hospitals are often isolated geographically and medically"; 3) the personnel shortage is severe...