Word: plans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dining hall service for freshmen and House residents will center in the Harvard Union. Students will be able to pay for their meals either with a blanket fee for the 15-day period or with coupons for each meal. The latter plan will be the wiser, a Union official said, for these who expect to miss breakfast or intend to eat out fairly frequently. Prices for the meals will be: 55 cents for breakfast, 75 cents for lunch, and 95 cents for supper...
...stimulating the private builder, for only he can supply the largest proportion of needed homes. Federal aid should provide for the income groups which he cannot help, partly because of inflated building costs. There must be Federal coordination from the top to aid and advise local groups, to plan better cities, and to prevent destruction of present facilities even for the purpose of improving them. No Utopia is in sight, but the 81st Congress, when it assembles on January 3, cannot long delay a start toward improving a situation in which one third of the nation lacks adequate shelter...
First, A.M.A.'s policy-making House of Delegates turned down a proposal for a nonprofit national health insurance company. The plan was recommended by the Blue Cross-Blue Shield Commissions, headed by Dr. Paul Ramsey Hawley. The idea was to issue policies covering hospital and medical bills on a nationwide scale, which would allow big businesses to sign one contract covering all employees, no matter where they work. The plan would give more people better medical care, and thus probably lessen agitation for compulsory insurance. But A.M.A. said no: the whole thing looked like socialism, it called...
Designer Geddes was so convincing that Schine last week announced plans to spend upwards of $10 million, under Geddes' direction, doing over the hotel and making it more than double its present size. Items: spacious (25-by-21-ft.) rooms with two baths and a balcony, a roof swimming pool with a beach of washable rubber-composition sand. On the six city blocks of empty land that surround the present building, Geddes and Architect Paul Williams, who is collaborating on the plan, will build 500 bungalows connected by a tunnel system to the hotel room service...
...took one year to plan, three years to write, and two more to edit this ambitious literary history of the U.S. The first two volumes consist of essays by 55 scholars; the third is a valuable bibliography. Here, presumably, is everything most readers could possibly want to know about American writing...