Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Midget Centers. Georgia is one of 44 states with centralized machinery for attracting general practitioners to rural areas. Many young doctors are reluctant to try it because they fear professional isolation, want to be near good hospitals. Virginia and Kansas pioneered with plans to have communities build midget medical centers and lease them (sometimes at $1 a year) to doctors in sectors remote from hospitals. The Sears, Roebuck Foundation works through the A.M.A. in offering communities help in planning, financing, building and equipping the centers. Last week Dr. Sills got his permanent license from the Georgia Board of Medical Examiners...
Today Red China's economy gasps and shudders like an abused donkey engine. The "great leap forward" that was to make China a major industrial power in the twinkling of an eye has instead produced something close to chaos. In the ant-heap rural communes that were to convert 500 million peasants into depersonalized, multi-purpose labor units, there is apathy and despair...
Homeland Corn. From the beginning, Kuba saw no sense in emulating the few great pictures of prewar Germany, e.g., M, Blue Angel, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. She specialized in Heimatschnulzen (homeland corn)-movies of rural love and village violence...
...plea for an American Blue Cross in a speech to the American Hospital Association. According to Maddix, such an organization would have Presidential appointees from the fields of agriculture, labor, and management as trustees, and would be able to provide nationwide benefits on a service basis, with wider rural and urban coverage and special rates for the retired and unemployed...
...addition to the week to be spent in Cambridge, where M.I.T. will be toured as well as Harvard, the Experiment's group of Russians will live with rural families in upper New York state and will visit Philadelphia, Washington and New York City. In Philadelphia, the emphasis will be an American labor and labor unions, while in the other cities the Soviet students will be chiefly tourists...