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Under "Fiscal" (TIME, Jan. 20), I read what you had to say about taxes and the budget . . . : "He [Franklin Roosevelt] termed the U. S. tax burden 'moderate' compared to other countries-somewhat as a doctor might advise a patient suffering from pneumonia in one lung that other people had double pneumonia...
...take it that a patient suffering from pneumonia in one lung-feeling bad enough -would rather escape pneumonia in the other lung-which he certainly will not do by kicking around and utterly disorganizing himself -destroying any body unity he could build up. A wise patient will swallow the nasty medicine-will ask for nastier medicine-in a chance to spare the other lung...
...place he substituted a picture of a fertile, high tableland of national income, its rare air oxygenated by Federally subsidized public works, after defense spending ends. He termed the U. S. tax burden "moderate" compared to other countries -somewhat as a doctor might advise a patient suffering from pneumonia in one lung that other people had double pneumonia...
...William Wilson Jameson, Chief Medical Officer of the British Ministry of Health, told Britons last week that four months of Blitzkrieg conditions had resulted only in an "infinitesimal" increase in disease. Scarlet fever and diphtheria had actually decreased and the number of pneumonia cases had grown but a trifle. The notable disease increase was in cerebrospinal meningitis, with 12,500 cases in 1940 as against...
...cold accounts for most of the illness throughout the University, with only five cases of genuine influenza diagnosed up to Tuesday, Dr. Bock said. "Despite the prevalence of respiratory infections, we have been unusually lucky in having very few complications. So far there have been only two cases of pneumonia and two middle ear infections...