Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convinced that "austerity" would take root on the mainland. Led by France's Robert Schuman, they made it clear that they favored a softer way of life (sometimes called "Beneluxury" because the Benelux countries, particularly Belgium, like it so much), with a high volume of more or less free European trade in all directions and relatively heavy purchases of consumer goods. "Cripps," one observer explained, "took the line of the husband whose wife is spending too much money, and who favors a reduction in her allowance. Schuman took the line that the husband should earn more money...
Last week "Former Naval Person" Winston Churchill spat angry words against a high wind. The Labor government, said he, "has forced the British people to live in a fool's purgatory upon the generous grants of free enterprise, capitalist America . . . If we are to earn our daily bread in the world, it can only be through the strongest possible individual effort and ingenuity arising from conditions of freedom and fair play...
...long 'free enterprise' seemed to mean only that the British employer was free from responsibility for his employees' welfare. Now the state comes to these undernourished men & women, provides their children with orange juice, cod liver oil and milk, sends the doctor when they are sick. These people won't listen to any man who tells them that the welfare state is a bad thing which robs them of their initiative by all this coddling. They will look at their healthier children and will call that man a liar...
...money than before the scheme went into effect; many make more. Almost all doctors are overworked, because of the enormous increase in patients and because of the new chit-writing and form-filling they must attend to. Contrary to dire predictions before the plan went into effect, doctors are free at least of one worry: there have been relatively few hypochondriacs. "It's been just like it was when they first put escalators in the underground stations," explains...
...people, all those over 15 years of age must now register with recognized health insurance cooperatives and contribute premiums equaling up to $10 yearly. But benefits depend on individual income. Those who have more than $1,700 a year after taxes are not eligible for free medical treatment...