Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patients ; there are now 29,250,000 members in Blue Cross, 7,250,000 in Blue Shield. And that is only a beginning, announced Roy E. Larsen, president of Manhattan's United Hospital Fund† and former director of the New York Blue Cross. Blue Cross membership increased 15% last year; on that basis, Larsen said, it would take only eight years to reach 100,000,000 members; at Blue Shield's present rate of growth, membership would exceed 30,000,000 in three years...
Durham M. Miller '47 defeated 12 other candidates to win the post of New England's first Regional Organizer, the American Veterans' Committee announced Wednesday. The new full-time position was made necessary by expanding AVC membership...
...Appropriations Committees of the House met in joint session, and, by chance, arrived at the same $6,000,000,000 figure as the feasible size of the cut. This decision was made by twenty members of the joint committee, meeting in secret, and imposed on the rest of the membership...
...Neal, tough and profane as well as courtly, has been the most powerful spokesman U.S. farmers have ever had. All during the Roosevelt years, he-more than any other man-shaped U.S. farm policy. In his heyday as president of the rich American Farm Bureau Federation (membership: 1,275,000), he had no peer as a Washington lobbyist. He knew when to cajole, when to burst into anger, when to be imperious, when to recite statistics, when to tell a droll story. The Agricultural Adjustment Act was the result of Ed O'Neal's ideas. He "nominated" Henry...
Radio Daily's blast at radio repairmen set up an immediate echo. Last week New York City Councilman Stanley Isaacs threatened to introduce a long-contemplated bill forcing radio repairmen (like plumbers, electricians, etc.) to pass municipal license tests. And membership in the two-month-old Associated Radio Servicemen of N.Y.. Inc. (whose pious principle is "to see that the public gets a good deal") hopped from...