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...million. At year's end, she actually had a small surplus on hand, though, the report warned, it was not certain that the surplus had "come to stay." Within these overall trade figures, however, was Britain's trade with the dollar countries and her chronic dollar shortage. This problem '-Britain's most urgent-had also been eased. In 1947, the British had bought in dollar countries nearly $3 billion more than they had sold. That deficit had been halved in 1948, and the Cripps report called for more exports to close...
Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who cultivates an attitude of chronic ferocity, gave some extraordinary advice...
...said he, was like a baby who had been taking the bottle too fast; it had to have a chance to burp. The big question was: "Is it going to be just one little burp, or is it going to be a chronic hiccup which is going to kill baby...
Speaking before a Medical School forum on public health, he said "there must be a program to control and prevent chronic diseases." Since major epidemics have been brought under control, by 1975 nearly 11 percent of our population will be 65 years old or more." Yet little has been done to make that maturity healthful," Scheele declared...
Scheele said that there are only 30,481 beds available in the United States for the care of chronically ill patients. Yet within the past few years, he stated, a widespread movement has arisen to awaken interest in chronic illness problems...