Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Extravagant Wife. Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's brilliant economic boss, was on hand for the OEEC talks. The U.S. Marshall Planners had told the European nations to get their financial houses in order, and Britain, once threatened with collapse, had done this better than any other. For this success, Sir Stafford praised his own brand of austerity, a controlled system of trade which combined high exports with low imports of consumer goods...
Although the majority of British doctors were originally opposed to it, 86% have joined the plan. Not all have done so because they wanted to, but because they could not earn enough money from private practice any more. Few can afford to hold out. Said one fashionable specialist: "Let's not be blind. In a few years, there'll probably be no private practice at all. All you do by not joining the plan is eventually to commit hara-kiri...
...housewife in the cotton town of Darwen, Lancashire, expressed the verdict of millions. "It's not so much what the plan saved me in money," she said, "because if I'd had to pay, I wouldn't have had us all done. I couldn't have afforded it. If we had paid, it would have cost us nearly ?16. Me and the children have all been examined, and the doctor's given me vitamin pills, and ordered two of the children to have specs, and sent another to have exercises for her spine...
...Bevan is pleased with what he has done in Britain. He considers it only a start. Morrison and other party leaders want to sit back and consolidate the party gains. Bevan says the party is like a man on a bicycle: if he stops he will fall. According to his own statement, Bevan will settle for nothing less than "total destruction" of the remnants of British capitalism, including the Conservative Party. He has estimated that completion of his program will take 25 years. Whether or not he and his party will have a chance to finish the job is still...
...America or South Africa are expensive ($4 to $10 apiece). Urine from a pregnant woman injected into a common male leopard frog (Rana pipiens) causes emission of spermatozoa. The test has also proved valuable for finding out whether, in doubtful cases, a miscarriage is inevitable. The test can be done in two hours, in a doctor's office, and is 98% accurate...