Word: setups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indians. It transferred responsibility for their health from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, in the Department of the Interior, to the U.S. Public Health Service, in the Department of Health. Education and Welfare. This might well be stronger medicine than it looks. The main trouble with the old setup was that doctors and nurses were hard to get for the Indians' 56 scattered hospitals and 21 health centers. With rare exceptions the buildings were old and ramshackle, and some were worse. Only the most exceptionally dedicated young doctor, fresh from interning, would sign up with Indian Affairs...
...work in various other industries? How about coal, for example-already sick, and harried by high wage rates and competition with oil? Can seasonal businesses or industries carry the GAW load? What if public taste veers away from goods produced by some outfit which has a GAW setup? Then, too, there is the fear, expressed by many who doubt the feasibility of GAW, that it will operate chiefly to impel employers to hire as few workers as they can. Certainly guaranteed annual wages for workers are fine, if feasible...
...would take time for changes in the setup to be reflected in improved safety in the vaccine and certainty on the part of the vaccinators. P.H.S. men were privately hoping that public clamor for the vaccine, by some unforeseeable magic, would peter out by August, when the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis will finish inoculating first-and second-graders. Said Dr. Scheele. in a thinly veiled reference to the foundation's widely known determination to get an effective vaccine within Founder-President Basil O'Connor's lifetime: "You cannot make viruses meet deadlines." Largely because of this...
...about a fellow who catches an enchanted fish, gives it its freedom and is granted his every wish in return. His shrewish wife takes over the wishes for herself. She becomes king, then emperor, but when she demands that she be made God, the whole strike-it-rich setup collapses. Composer Stein, 44, who is a conductor and a teacher at De Paul University School of Music, saw it more as a serious than a comic affair, and most of the music had a mournful cast...
...harmony with Predecessors Paul Hoffman, Averell Harriman and Harold Stassen. Some of Stassen's top aides muttered that they would quit rather than work under Hollister. The Washington Post expressed "misgivings" based on 1) reports that a Hoover Commission task force will propose to atomize the foreign-aid setup, scattering the fragments among various departments, and 2) Hollister's record as a Taft Republican (a Congressman from 1931 to 1936, Hollister fought the New Deal and voted against Cordell Hull's Reciprocal Trade...