Word: planned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later, he taught accounting at the University of California and wrote Practical Farm Accounts, which sold 100,000 copies. In 1945 he took over the presidency of Boston's Museum of Natural History, in four years cleaned out its moldy exhibits and put through a plan to build one of the most modern museums...
...early to tell what the plan has done for British health, but in an editorial called "The State Is My Shepherd" McPherrin says that there are "definite signs that it has done something to their faith in themselves." If the U.S. should ever adopt the same kind of a scheme, "we must be prepared to accept the same increases in taxes and government controls. But of much greater significance is the depressing effect upon the spirit of the people. Britons want security, but we do not think they have found it . . . To the extent that any man accepts the doctrine...
British workers are just beginning to get uneasy about the health plan and the controls it brought, McPherrin says, but they are still for it. "When prodded into discussing the cost of the service to him as a taxpayer, the worker begins to realize that he does not know much about the cost and this fact worries him . . . But he is not ready to turn against the health scheme. Even if he were, there is no place for him to turn...
There is one point on which McPherrin agrees with Health Minister Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan, with whom he talked. To work effectively, such a government health plan needs "complete centralized control." Concludes McPherrin: "I don't think many Americans would be willing to grant that much control because they are not used to that type of government...
...through the lushest days of its World War II boom. Ward had decided to retire (the board had voted him a $25,000-a-year pension for life). Sherman Fairchild (who still owned 95,000 shares) formed a committee to defeat the pension. Ward was alarmed and withdrew his plan. Fairchild went ahead with his committee. Its new purpose: to oust Ward...