Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commission's quandary revived the old debate over the value of luxury liners -and whether its plans to build nine such liners made any sense. It has already postponed bids to build four such ships because of the shortage of materials. And it still has on its hands the biggest white elephant of all-the Normandie. Even in her heyday she lost money. Last week the Commission asked for bids to cut her up for scrap, feared that no one would buy her. A West Coast oil company suggested that she be used for bulk storage...
Bidu Sayao: Celebrated Operatic Arias (with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fausto Cleva conducting; Columbia, 8 sides). With the help of recording engineers, who build up her graceful little voice, Brazil's Bidu comes through handsomely. The eight arias are mostly from the roles (in Manon, La Bohème) which made Sayao famous at the Met. Performance: good...
...psychiatrists. To carry out its program-research in mental disease and establishment of federal-aided mental clinics in all states-the nation needs at least 20,000 more mental doctors. No more than 500 a year can be trained in existing institutes and medical schools. The council will build a $7.500,000 mental health institute for training and research in Bethesda, Md., help medical schools' enlarge their psychiatry departments, send demonstration teams to state mental hospitals...
...population since 1939, 2) a great boom in hospital insurance plans (nearly 27,000,000 members) and 3) a trend toward treating more & more diseases and delivering more & more babies in a hospital instead of at home. The biggest demand for hospital care is in cities. But the new building program will not be conducted on the principle that the squeaking axle gets the most grease. A major share of the federal funds will be used to build small hospitals and health centers in rural areas, since 40% of U.S. counties have no registered hospitals...
Housing Expediter Wilson Watkins Wyatt heard the rafters creaking; the roof might cave in on him any day now. The man from Kentucky had tried and was still trying to be optimistic about his sagging emergency housing program. He still insisted that the U.S. could build 1,200,000 new veterans' homes in 1946. But the program's sorry shape was plain...