Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever the reasons, private industry had not met the nation's requirements in housing. But there was at least a partial solution in a program on which Harry Truman and Bob Taft could agree. It was the Taft-Ellender-Wagner bill, calling for U.S.-aided slum clearance, federal guarantees in the next year of up to $1.6 billion on private mortgage loans, and construction of 15 million dwellings in the next decade (500,000 in five years under federal public housing). The Senate had passed the bill. At week's end it was bottled up in Representative Jesse...
...American Bar Association denounced U.S. divorce laws as "rotten" and "disgraceful," urged that the nation cease warring on the institution of divorce and begin trying to improve it. Some of its suggestions: uniformity of state divorce laws, a new type of divorce hearing, establishment of courts equipped to diagnose and treat failing marriages...
There might still be a few more meetings; a report would have to be made in September to the 58-nation General Assembly. But there was not much more to be said...
...free" system (in preponderant effect at present) results in overcharging and under-service. Farm spokesmen pointed out that many rural areas have few doctors or none. Only the richest parts of the country have enough medical services. The poorer parts, whose health affects the health and strength of the nation, are shunned by doctors as feeless medical wastelands. The only solution to the problem, cried labor, is national health insurance, financed and administered, when necessary, by the Government...
Sabotage by Stealth. "Now . . . suppose a few men in one of these countries decide the other nation must be 'removed,' that it must be wiped out by a war without warfare. Supposing they plan a war without the formalities of overt acts, a kind of global sabotage aimed not at capture but at destruction, a truly 'preventive war.' In this creeping war there would be no blitzkrieg, no declaration, no massing of forces...