Word: riche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been used to handling money; she started a dress pattern business (Hollywood Patterns) which boomed for 17 years. She was also a successful art dealer (she divorced her first husband, Art Dealer Paul Reinhardt, in 1934). In 1940 she married Albert D. Lasker; two years later he liquidated his rich advertising firm, Lord & Thomas, to busy himself with good works in science and medicine. Both the Laskers are interested in "finding out what is wrong, then helping people who try to clean up the mess...
...Minister of Health Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan decided that suitable hospital cases could get free spa treatment under his National Health scheme. The Health Ministry found that it was not going to be easy to decide who was "suitable." A mere yen to go down to a spa like the rich folk would not make a patient eligible. "If Mrs. Jones of Clerkenwell wants to take the water," explained the Ministry carefully, "she does not have the right to demand this treatment under the National Health Service Act. She will be sent to the nearest hospital which meets her case...
...seemed, had a decided personal desire, all right. By last week, 71 patients had received treatment in Bath. From now on, free of charge, more & more of Britain's arthritic and rheumatic poor would share the tile-lined baths and rubbing rooms with the hypochondriacal and over-indulged rich...
...exception was Republic Steel Corp.'s Tom M. Girdler. In 1938, to find out whether Adirondack ore was rich enough to warrant its cost, he leased the Mineville and Port Henry properties from the Witherbee Sherman Corp. Girdler soon bought up another ancient mine and 115,000 acres in the mineral-rich Chateaugay district, dug shafts, built mills and narrow-gauge railroads. The Government helped him get labor. During the war it financed the building of his dormitory villages with churches, hospitals and a swimming pool. Last week Republic had an Adirondack working force of 1,550, and Girdler...
...squeeze on Paris designers. Although Lucien Lelong blamed ill health when he closed his shop last month, friends thought his health could have held up if his firm had not-like many others-been operating in the red. Couturiers agreed that survival could be assured only by establishing a rich new market...