Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain was planning to plow back 20% of her gross income each year for the next four years into improving her production plant. Next to the U.S., Britain was the West's biggest Santa Claus. While taking ECA dollars with one hand, she was giving to Marshall aid countries with the other $312 million (in sterling) to cover their expected trading deficit with Britain...
Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan, Britain's Health Minister, was a bit embarrassed last week by the public's enthusiasm for government-financed doctoring. He announced: "It seems that an extraordinary proportion of the population has bad sight . . . The health service will fail unless the people use it intelligently, sparingly and prudently...
...were taking advantage of their chance to get medical care and let the government pay the doctor's bill. A check in Birmingham showed that 97% of the people tested actually needed glasses, and manufacturers of frames are two months behind in their orders. Two thirds of Britain's dentists have signed up under the act; many are swamped with drill-and-forceps work on the notoriously bad British teeth...
Pounds & Pence. What is it all going to cost? Britain is now paying general practitioners a total of ?45,000,000 ($180,000,000) a year. The prewar total income of G.P.s: ?28,000,000 ($112,000,000). But general practitioners are only part of John Bull's medical bill. Meanwhile, the Health Ministry and those who oppose socialized medicine are busy hurling statistics at each other. The British Dental Association claims that the plan is costing the government seven times the estimated cost for dentistry. Not so, says Bevan: the estimated ?7,000,000 ($28,000,000) will...
Born. To Emily Hahn ("Micky") Boxer, 43, best-selling authoress (The Soong Sisters, China To Me), and Major Charles Boxer, 44, Britain's Hong Kong intelligence chief in 1941, now a professor of Portuguese literature at King's College, University of London: their second child, a girl (their first, Carola, according to Author Hahn, was born illegitimately in 1941); in Manhattan. Name: Amanda. Weight...