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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bruising. His story was a common one to Britons who, for the last eight months, have trooped into doctors' and dentists' offices to get free medical care under the Labor government's National Health Service. Last week the government delivered the bill for all the spectacles, dentures and trusses. Like many a doctor's bill, it was a shocker...
...were both away when sleek, dark-suited Willem Johannes Janse van Rensburg rolled importantly into dusty Hennenman in a big car marked with the official Gs of government service. But Rensburg was not one to wait on protocol. With one stern glance about the little (pop. 1,146) Orange Free State village, he commandeered a likely office, announced to the assembled villagers that he was the new government health inspector and asked for complaints...
During his recent visit to Tokyo, Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall asked some of the newspaper boys to drop by at the U.S. embassy for a drink. Twelve U.S. newsmen came. Burly, bumbling Royall talked, on & off, for an hour. He left the reporters free to use his remarks if they did not attribute them to him. What he had said during that cocktail hour set off a cyclone of alarm and confusion...
...Royal Little had set up six such trusts. Part of their tax-free income, which had totaled nearly $10 million, had been used to finance Textron's expansion. The trusts had paid out very little to their beneficiaries. Example: the Rhode Island Charities Trust had taken in $4,500,000, paid out $85,000 to its beneficiary (the Providence Community Chest). But it had paid out $140,000 to its trustees and banker...
...Black & Tans. The free-for-alls of O'Casey's Volume IV are set in the years when Eire was finally obtaining her independence. Black & Tans roar through Dublin in armored cars, Irish rebels fight them off shoulder to shoulder-and, after defeating them, turn their ferocity against one another. The air is full of flying shillelaghs, ecclesiastical croziers, broken staves of office, and splintering scepters. But olive branches are missing from the scene and O'Casey, parodying Yeats, chants sarcastically...