Word: careful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been dropped into the keel of the 65,000-ton supercarrier United States, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson issued a curt order "discontinuing construction of the vessel . . . at the least possible cost to the Government."" The decision meant only one thing: from now on the Air Force will take care of long-range strategic bombing; the Navy will be. held to the job of keeping the overseas supply lines open, and launching amphibious landings on foreign shores...
...million Americans now under Social Security (and another 35 million more if Social Security is expanded) would be entitled to complete medical, surgical, dental and hospital care. Even eyeglasses, false teeth, glass eyes, artificial arms & legs would be provided, as under Britain's new socialized medicine...
...Most critics thought the President's program was also unrealistic, because it put the cart before the horse. The nation's corps of 190,000 doctors, and the hospitals available to them, would have to be vastly expanded before they could cope with the millions entitled to care under the Truman program...
...premiums of the poor so that they could join such voluntary private health-insurance programs as the Blue Cross which already cover 50 million Americans. Taft's bill also provides federal subsidies for training doctors and building hospitals. Truman's answer to these bills: "Medical care is needed as a right, not as a medical dole." One sign of the trouble the President's bill faces: seven of the 13 members of the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee (including two Democrats) are already committed either to the Taft or Hill bills...
...librarian, who takes care of the group's sheet music, will be elected from next fall's incoming freshmen...