Word: substandard
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...medical-care plans conducted jointly by mine owners and the union. But doctors are often appointed by favoritism (with the union conniving) and patients often have no choice of a physician. Medical service does not cover childbearing or venereal disease. Three-fourths of the hospitals available to miners are substandard in some way; hospital insurance plans drastically limit benefits (e.g., they do not cover hospitalization for a contagious disease). Despite the high rate of mine accidents, only 28% of the mines have adequate first-aid facilities...
...Kept out of many hospitals, Negroes have only 124 hospitals of their own (many of them substandard), with a total of 20,800 beds (national total: 1,700,000 beds...
...Beacon Street windows across the Common to some of the worst slums in New England and asks what they are doing there. In 1940, the Housing Authority found that one third of Boston's dwellings had no heat but stoves. The survey classed one fifth of the homes substandard and reported that half of these had no running water, private baths, or toilets. "And this condition," Lyons adds, "had changed only by further deterioration...
...battle of Buffalo was over, but the war went on. In Atlantic City, a committee of the powerful National Education Association (341,000 members) warned against any ban on teachers' strikes. Said the committee: "Teachers must not be coerced into working for substandard wages with no way of making effective protest." In New York City, where several of the city's teachers' groups began talking strike, Superintendent John Wade sent a carefully phrased note to all 34,000 teachers. He approved, he said, of the continued "professional campaign" for higher pay, but nervously threatened that "any other...
These puzzling findings were reported in the Journal of the American Dental Association by four researchers who have been trying to find out why teeth go bad. Does a substandard diet prevent decay? Perhaps it does. The Birmingham men would not say, but they were sure that underfeeding does not cause decay...