Word: rurality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compulsory plan was the only way in which poorer persons could obtain sufficient medical care. Goldman stated that health insurance groups like the Blue Cross and Blue Shield were successful largely in industrial areas with a high income level. Blue Cross covers only between three or four percent of rural populations he said...
Scrambling wildly for safety, Administration leaders threw up one compromise after another. As the bill reached the House floor, Housing Expediter Tighe Woods tactfully let it be known that he was planning to take controls off rents in more than 100 rural and small-town areas. Then the Administration accepted an amendment guaranteeing "reasonable" returns to landlords...
...G.P.s wanted it understood that a general practitioner does not necessarily mean a country doctor. The convention issue of General Practice News criticized the A.M.A.'s annual award for the outstanding general practitioner of the year. There have been two winners thus far, and both practiced in rural areas. Why not drop the award, the G.P. News suggested, or frankly give it to an outstanding "rural practitioner...
...Post, with one-third of its 225,000 circulation in rural areas, thought that Partridge's trick, even for city-bred readers, was worth an eight-column. Page One headline: OKLAHOMA'S PRISONER-COW FREED FROM SILO. But Managing Editor Alexis McKinney had some misgivings: "I see trouble ahead. Every farmer will be yelling, 'Send us Partridge...
...mayor's answer was much more representative of the earnest, if puzzled, search for democracy that is going on nowadays in rural Japan...