Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland...
Mennin's Third ("the so-called popular one," he calls it) has been played in Pittsburgh, Cleveland and in Sweden, and got first-string Manhattan critics out two years ago. The New York Times noted "a conspicuous advance...
...with TIME material which arrived via Portugal. By 1944 we were printing a Scandinavian edition behind the German blockade in neutral Stockholm from film (of TIME's pages) flown from the U.S. to Britain and then, by blacked-out Mosquito bomber, across the North Sea at night into Sweden. There German officers passing through could read about Allied victories, and the Japanese embassy dutifully cabled TIME's entire contents to Tokyo each week. We never lost a packet of film through enemy action...
...employers. Austria, since 1888, has copied the German pattern. More than 6,500,000, or 90% of the population, are now health-insured. White-collar workers contribute 4.2%, and manual laborers 5 to 6.5% of their wages. Administration is in the hands of semiprivate companies supervised by the government. Sweden, since 1891, has promoted voluntary sickness and accident insurance. More than half the population, or 4,700,000, are covered. They pay varying premiums to government-approved societies. The government pays 55% of the societies' outlay...
Nearly all of Sweden's 3,359 doctors take part. A law already passed, but not effective until 1951, will make health insurance compulsory. Norway has had health insurance since 1909, compulsory for all earning less than 9,000 kroner ($1,800) yearly and voluntary for those earning more...