Word: limbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Veterans Administration has long known that artificial legs which Government orthopedic shops made for $62 were being sold by private firms for as much as $450. When the Administration tried to get lower prices through competitive bids, it often got identical bids from all members of the Association of Limb Manufacturers of America, which makes over 80% of the nation's artificial limbs and 90% of the parts...
...Disapproval of governmental operation of artificial limb manufacture is widespread in our industry. We believe the mass production of artificial limbs by the Army and Navy should now be abandoned as a policy, and particularly the present system of fitting limbs with insufficiently trained enlisted personnel. The Veterans Administration should adopt a more realistic and equitable policy in purchasing artificial limbs so that a veteran may actually be enabled to select the best limb available for his case. The American public wants him to have this choice, but present Veterans Administration policy prevents him from making...
Winkley Artificial Limb Co. Minneapolis
...Veterans' Administration, responsible for providing permanent prostheses, has simply given each veteran about $150 to go out and buy a limb. It has financed no research, being content to accept the word of the 500 commercial limb-makers that their research is adequate...
...More than half of the top executives of limb concerns wear prostheses themselves, and are as anxious for improvements as anyone. But so far their scattered research has produced only minor improvements...