Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...example of what can be achieved by a group medical insurance program, and the Hygiene Department's offerings suffer from a comparison. Designed primarily for the benefit of a group whose income is less than $1,500 a year, and including all ages, Blue Cross and Blue Shield can expect that a large percentage of its members will become ill than would be the case for Harvard's normally healthy undergraduates. Yet its rates are only $23.80 per year for a Single Membership (compared to the Hygiene Department's $45). And for their money, hospitalized participants get x-rays, regardless...
...week, before a Republican Congress could do it, the Department of Agriculture ended sugar rationing for consumers. The housewife could tear up her tattered ration books, look her grocer in the eye, demand five, ten, or 20 lbs. of sugar. Price controls were kept. But how long she could expect to get all the sugar she wanted was something else. Unless human nature had changed since the days of the war's black markets, many still-rationed bakers, candymakers and other industrial users would soon be bidding heavily for her supplies...
...Minute Men. In any future war, doctors expect to have to cope with simultaneous mass attacks-atomic bombs, poisons (probably radioactive), viruses and bacteria-on many cities and industrial suburbs. The nation's doctors and all health facilities would have to be ready for total mobilization within 24 hours. A major problem: preventing the disruption of health services by the first attack (as happened in Hiroshima). Atomic-age warfare, military and medical men agree, would wipe out all distinction between combatants and noncombatants: there would probably be more civilian than military casualties, and doctors would have to be assigned...
Even the pessimists did not expect the shortage to get anywhere near as bad as it was in wartime. But they did expect it to bring higher oil prices. And next autumn, when the heavy drain begins on fuel oil storage, some local tanks...
...realist to the core, Gulbenkian did not expect to keep Standard from going into Saudi Arabia by holding it to the "Red Line" agreement. But if the agreement is to be abrogated, so that Standard and Socony would not have to share their Arabian oil with Iraq Petroleum partners, Gulbenkian wanted to be paid off. So far, his price has looked too high to Standard...