Word: care
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bruising. His story was a common one to Britons who, for the last eight months, have trooped into doctors' and dentists' offices to get free medical care under the Labor government's National Health Service. Last week the government delivered the bill for all the spectacles, dentures and trusses. Like many a doctor's bill, it was a shocker...
Bevan was unabashed. The figures simply meant, he said, that more Britons needed medical care than anyone suspected. "Insofar as the figures show that suffering is being relieved," cried Bevan, "we should be proud!" Though initially reluctant, 90% of Britain's dentists and 86% of her physicians had now joined the plan. "Had they not come in," Bevan declared triumphantly, "I should not have had a deficit, but a surplus. I should have been praised by the Opposition for being a financial success-but I should have been a failure as a Minister of Health...
...later of Standard Oil Co. of California, gregarious Jimmy Moffett knew the oil business inside & out. As onetime Federal Housing Administrator and an old friend of Franklin D. Roosevelt, he also knew politics and politicos. He soon fixed things so that Ibn Saud was taken care of. But Jimmy Moffett complained that nobody ever took care of him for being such an influential person. Six years later he sued Aramco for $6,000,000 for services rendered...
...that when he went to Washington on his mission in 1941, he persuaded F.D.R. to help Aramco in its troubles with Ibn Saud. Moffett introduced a 1941 memo from President Roosevelt to Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones, which said: "Will you tell the British I hope they can take care of the King of Saudi Arabia-this is a little far afield...
Rank & file U.S. movie exhibitors may not care much about cinematic art for its own sake, but they know what they want from Hollywood. Last week the exhibitors drew some conclusions from their box-office receipts. After polling its exhibitor-members across the nation, the Allied States Association announced: Hollywood's pictures (and advertising) have been truckling to the tastes of "sophisticated Broadway audiences" and "professional reviewers," and run a serious risk of becoming "class entertainment...