Word: health
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best qualified to measure Europe's progress toward peace and economic health reported their finding to the U.S. last week in a glow of confidence. One was ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman, who was off on another round of talks in Europe, announcing "spectacular" results. Said Hoffman: "The complete recovery of Western Europe can be expected by 1952 even if the Soviet satellites continue to block trade between Eastern and Western Europe." The other report came from General Lucius Clay, home on a 27-hour visit from his headquarters in Germany to make his first direct report to the U.S. people...
...spends $12 a week for food (50% more than prewar), $4 for local taxes, light and heat. Their 23? meat ration lasts for only two meals, so Mary supplements it with items like mushrooms and canned salmon. This is costly but the Jacksons consider it an investment in good health...
Both before and after the war the financial system of the Hygiene Department was examined by insurance companies, and none of them was willing to undertake a program of health insurance here at the price the University is charging. But such investigations, aimed at the reproduction by a private company of what is now done on a quasi-socialistic basis by the University, were of a basically different nature than that proposed here...
...concern itself as much with the quality of service offered as with the amount offered and the price charged. Such an investigation, if it found ways to improve the Hygiene Department, would obviously be valuable. And if its sole result were to give the Department a clean bill of health, that too would have the valuable effect of restoring student confidence in the Hygiene Department and of stopping criticism that cannot help but undermine the morale of the Department and its patients...
Comparison with health departments in other universities, such as Chicago and Pennsylvania "is not reasonable, because Harvard does not possess a University hospital," the reply states. The student committee had mentioned these universities where, they said, "the charge per year . . . is substantially less than it is at Harvard...