Word: prepaid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beginning, tempers were running as high as temperatures: hotel space was all mixed up, a fight was brewing over prepaid medical care plans, an uncomfortably hot issue had been added to the program at the last moment (see below). It took the best bedside manner of some of the nation's canniest practitioners to keep things under control...
...Washington, D.C. after a variety of illnesses was found by Dr. Clarence Lee Miller to have about 20 steel sewing needles scattered through his body. All were rusty and bedded in scar tissue. The upholsterer had held them in his mouth at work and accidentally swallowed them. ¶ Prepaid health-insurance plans might be healthier if they were revised to include a sliding scale of premiums based on subscribers' incomes, suggested the American Hospital Association's Kenneth Williamson. His argument: doctors' fees also vary with ability...
...Medical care should be prepaid on an insurance basis-"payment ... on a fee-for-service-as-rendered basis is outmoded...
...more specific about his product: "A friend in Kentucky wrote that he was sending along an old crow which had been around for 125 years. When the expressmen delivered the package, it contained a bottle of an oldtime beverage called Old Crow. Another wag offered to ship me, prepaid, an elderly female relative by marriage . . . However, what I am looking for are authenticated very old crows ... I would deeply appreciate any help from you or your readers." He signed his name and address, but not his occupation...
...unload their lots, some harried dealers resorted to all sorts of come-ons. Customers were promised everything from a $10,000 life-insurance policy (one year prepaid) and a 125-piece silver-plated service to 200 gallons of gas free with every car costing over $1,000. A Chicago dealer advertised a '41 Chevrolet for $175, and "this '42 for a penny." A Dallas dealer reduced the price of a car every three hours until it was sold. A Los Angeles salesman promised a 25-by-100-foot lot (including mineral and oil rights) with every used...