Word: care
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That is the number, of the 18 million living U.S. veterans of three wars, who will get V.A. doctoring this year. Five hundred thousand of them will be in V.A. hospitals. The annual medical bill: $500 million. And V.A.'s medical care of most of the veterans of World War II has only begun. In an openhanded mood at the war's end, Congress awarded all veterans, under certain conditions, free hospital care for the rest of their lives for any ailment whatsoever. V.A. estimates that its peak hospital load (if there are no more wars) will...
...years, the dynamic doctor has whipped into shape the finest system of medical care in the world. Of V.A.'s 124 hospitals, half are now affiliated with medical schools, and are giving resident training to some 2,000 doctors. Hawley rates 40% of his hospitals as first-class, i.e., "nothing better in the country," and only 15% below par (before Bradley and Hawley, 95% of V.A. hospitals were rated below par). V.A. now has nearly six times as many full-time doctors (3,501), more than twice as many nurses (10,715) and nearly seven times as many social...
...this to-do is as expensively and prettily produced as if anyone could possibly care. Probably because the author of the original bestseller, Frank Yerby, is a Negro, the best thing in the picture is a more than ordinary interest in slaves and their lives; but even this feature is drowned in ornateness and theatricality...
Unfortunately, the closing work, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, not heard in Symphony Hall since 1945, seemed almost anti-climactic. The reading was quite straightforward and warm, outside of an unnecessarily funereal second movement, and great care was spent on fine details; but the fire and urgency that sweep everything before them when Toscanini plays this favorite, were somehow lacking...
Already proud of having attended one baby on its date of birth (care will begin as soon as the baby is born), the Service has 30 expectant mothers on its list...