Word: health
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World Series. Denverites could talk of nothing except the Denver Bears, who had won 23 of their last 29 games. Fresh-water fishermen were experimenting with a new casting rod, a 22-inch contrivance of spring steel called a "stubcaster." Beaches were jammed everywhere-even near New York, where health authorities made grave tests for dangerous germs from open sewers. Oklahoma Citians tried something new in outdoor entertainment -square dances held on the concrete apron outside the municipal auditorium...
...constitution be changed to allow the election of generals, instead of having them appointed by their predecessors. When Bramwell rejected this suggestion, she circulated the documents among the Army's Commissioners and Territorial Commanders. By 1928, 72-year-old General Bramwell Booth was so broken in health that the Army became a regency administered by Chief of Staff Edward J. Higgins. At a tense meeting of the High Council of Army leaders from all over the world, Bramwell was ousted as unfit to hold office. Higgins was elected general-by 44 votes to 17 for Evangeline...
...womb to tomb" was the British phrase for it. When Sir William Beveridge (in 1942) put out his famous plan,* its socialistic scheme for insurance and medical care was sponsored by a Conservative-led coalition government. Last week, under the more appropriate aegis of the Labor government, a National Health Service Act initiated by the Beveridge Report went into effect. For every man, woman & child in the United Kingdom, all medical care would be free, in a Socialist sense (paid out of taxes): doctors' and dentists' services, drugs, hospital beds, eyeglasses, artificial legs...
Sign or Starve? Many doctors were unhappy about it. Last February the Brit ish Medical Association had voted 10 to 1 (TIME, March 1) against cooperating with the Act. But 21,341 out of 23,000 general practitioners had eventually signed up. To ease their pain, Health Minister Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan had held out a placebo: his government had no plans to make the doctors full-time civil servants. They would get a "base pay" of about $3.50 a year for each patient on their books. Estimated top income, with all extras, like obstetrics : $20,000. Estimated income...
...would the Health Act work for the patients? It was too early to tell. But one doctor, figuring out how often his old patients fell ill, made a guess for those on his new list, decided that he could average six minutes to a patient...