Word: plans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctor to call. The old general practitioners are dying out; young replacements are too few to cover the territory properly, even if they took to helicopters. Last week a group of worried Kansans, sparked by Dr. Franklin Murphy, dean of the Medical School of Kansas University, had a plan...
Under the proposed plan, which is backed by the Kansas Medical Society and the Kansas Farm Bureau Federation, the university medical school and the local communities will cooperate in a threefold program to attract young doctors to rural districts. First, with a $4,000,000 grant, which will be asked of the state legislature in January, the medical school will be expanded to graduate 100 doctors a year, instead of the present 80. Next, individual communities will set up the graduates in practice at a cost of some $15,000, which the doctors will pay back in installments. Lastly...
Freeman has a quartermaster's command of the immense body of historical material he works with. His researcher's notes on white, blue, pink and yellow slips are arranged to correspond to the biographical plan he has carefully outlined in his notebooks. By the use of an ingenious system of numbers and symbols he can turn to any scrap of material he needs in a matter of seconds. After he has written a chapter, he "lets it cool" for a month and then his revisions always "cut the first draft to pieces." After the fourth typing he sticks...
...needed job-the definitive biography of Washington. Fosdick offered him Rockefeller money for the research, but Freeman refused because he was a trustee of the foundation. So Fosdick got the Carnegie Corporation to put up the cash. The cost so far: $23,000. For Freeman it meant ditching his plan to write a history of the Union's Army of the Potomac, something he no longer regrets because "There is so much ugliness in the history of the Army of the Potomac that it should not be shown up by a Southerner...
...poker game, not of a court of inquiry: You turn a card, and I will turn a card, rather than upsetting the table and calling you a fraud. While the Russians propose control of atomic energy, our response cannot only be that Bernard Baruch already has offered a fine plan which you nasty people ruined, so that you are clearly not making your offer in good faith now. If this is the adamant attitude of the West, the Russians can counter legitimately (from a point of pure logic) that the capitalist nations can never be forgiven for their support...