Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year. . . . The average cost of private medical care is $76 a person annually. . . . The total [yearly] cost of illness and premature death is $10,000,000,000. We cannot attack successfully with small change a ten-billion-dollar problem." She proposed that the Government embark on a ten-year program to spend $850,000,000 annually. Suggested appropriations: $705,000,000 for expansion of public health facilities, development of maternity and child health centres, financing of medical specialists, eradication of tuberculosis, venereal diseases and malaria, control of fatalities in pneumonia and cancer, promotion of mental hygiene and industrial hygiene...
...medical profession." As for the plan, he continued "centralization of control of medical service by any State agency" would bring "great danger to the health of the nation." Said Editor Fishbein, vexed that Miss Roche had not consulted the potent A. M. A. in preparing her program: "I could tear to pieces . . . this program. . . . Medical care is not the most important problem before the people of the United States today. . . . The fundamental needs of mankind are food, fuel, clothing, shelter and a job, and medical care and dental care must always be subservient to these main human needs...
...conference cheered Dr. Cabot, gasped at Dr. West, applauded Dr. Fishbein's oratory, loudly contested A. M. A. ideas. Asked for no formal endorsement, the delegates hailed Miss Roche's assurance that the next Congress would consider her program. To Manhattan went Dr. Hugh Cabot and friends, where they proceeded to hold their first annual meeting, under the name of the Committee of Physicians. They upheld the Roche program. To their Chicago fortress went A. M. A.'s triumvirate, repeating: "There can be but one master in the house of physician...
...spur this industrialization, Governors of nine southeastern States (Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama) year ago formed a "conference." At the top of their program they put equalization of the freight disparities...
...festival's general program had changed little, but the personnel had changed much. In the place of the absent Toscanini reigned Germany's No. 1 conductor, Wilhelm Furtwängler. Notably absent from the roster were such famous operatic names as Lotte Lehmann, Kerstin Thorborg, Rosa Pauly. In place of the grandiose stage productions of Faust and Jedermann, two new dramatic productions were scheduled: Goethe's Egmont and Amphitryon, a play by Germany's 19th-Century, romantic Playwright Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist...