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...granted, food companies that use the cans are certain to do the same, and so on, until the boost reaches the consumer. The Price Commission also approved a 3.8% increase in the advertising rates of Chicago's Field Enterprises, but turned down the bid of Virginia's Bassett Furniture Industries to boost prices by 1.8% on the grounds of "insufficient justification." New applicants for price increases included the U.S. Postal Service, which requested a 23.9% hike in third-class mail. All together, more than 160 applications are pending before the commission. Cost of Living Council Director Donald Rumsfeld...
...usual, the plot begins to thicken no later than the top of page 2. Bertie Wooster has just escaped from the clutching hands of Madeline Bassett, Sir Watkyn's daughter, and is reflecting on the joys of freedom. "I've seldom had a sharper attack of euphoria," he tells Jeeves over the eggs and bacon. "I feel full to the brim of Vitamin B. Mind you, I don't know how long it will last. Too often it is when one feels fizziest that the storm clouds begin doing their stuff...
...inevitable thunderclap comes in the form of a telephone call from his Aunt Dahlia, who invites him down to her estate near Market Snodsbury. Who should be there but Madeline Bassett and her new fiancé, the seventh Earl of Sidcup, not to mention the beautiful but bossy Florence Craye, a millionaire businessman called L.P. Runkle, and a bounder by the name of Bingley. Add to that Bertie, a mobile magnet for disaster, and you have literary lunacy of a high order-P.G. Wodehouse in near-perfect form. In no time at all, the Earl of Sidcup has caught...
National Prototype. Unlike many community hospitals, the Bassett does not have to struggle for money or personnel. The hospital has an endowment income of $1,000,000 a year and offers excellent opportunities for research, plus first-class training for young doctors. A 1947 agreement gives many members of the staff a faculty appointment at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. In turn, the hospital has established strong training programs for interns, nurses and medical students, along with residencies in the major specialties. "We are better off training here than in the city," says Third Year Surgical...
...accomplished by the creation of a nationwide network of 126 regional health centers, combining schools and hospitals, and located within an hour's drive of 95% of the population. As the ideal prototype for such institutions, the Carnegie report pinpointed one existing hospital: Cooperstown's Mary Imogene Bassett...