Word: orc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rent Control, he found-along with hundreds of others-that the new rent-control law had a loophole. And landlords, chafing under rent ceilings, had found it. They could sell their apartments to tenants-or outside buyers-as "cooperatives," without so much as a by-your-leave from ORC...
...Federal Government Plan" for health security (20% answered "Don't know"). Another survey by the National Opinion Research Center found that 68% favor a broadened social-security law covering payments for doctor and hospital care. (The NORC blames the apparent discrepancy in the surveys on the way the ORC worded its questions: people tend to say No when confronted by phrases like "Federal Government"). Strongly implied in both surveys was public impatience with present distribution of medical care, alarm at its cost and a feeling that something should be done...
...March 10, 1943--The Commanding General, Services of Supply, directs that a Purple Heart, engraved with the name of the recipient, be issued to Lt. Leland B. Henry, Chaplain ORC, Chaplain School, Harvard University, Cambridge, on account of a wound received in action October 11, 1918, while serving as a sergeant, Headquarters Company, 39th Infantry--" J.S. Richards, Adjutant General, Services of Supply, War Department, Washington...