Word: parran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprise was this substitution of plain bread for the rich cake of the Wagner bill. Last December, when the President first mentioned a hospital-construction plan, he was vigorously supported by the American Medical Association, which had vigorously opposed the Wagner bill. And for many months, Surgeon General Thomas Parran has been conducting a painstaking county-by-county survey of hospital facilities in the 48 States. On his desk last week were blueprints of neat little one-story hospitals, some of wood, others of brick and adobe, each planned to house 100 beds. Estimated cost: $150,000 apiece, including...