Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jiro Aidawa had promised to make them something free of charge. Last week he displayed his handiwork to the delighted youngsters. It was an animal band. A toy monkey waved a baton, a bear scraped on a fiddle, a giraffe shook a tambourine, an elephant pounded a drum. The tune they would play for Nehru's ear was strictly made in the U.S.A. It was Oh! Susanna...
...Cost. The only way to reach this goal, said Ewing, is to tax all U.S. payrolls and self-employed persons to the tune of 3% at first, and eventually 4%, on the first $4,800 of income. On a taxable $150 billion (more than the nation's $133 billion payroll but well under its total personal income of $210 billion), Ewing figures this would yield $4.5 billion at first-just what private U.S. citizens now spend on doctors, hospitals and drugs. But with the same amount of money, Ewing planned to give more of this kind of care...
...individually did little at first to prosecute their case. This they left to the American Medical Association. Once (during World War I), the A.M.A. had favored compulsory, health insurance. But during Dr. Morris Fishbein's long (1924-49) and bellicose editorship of the A.M.A.'s Journal, the tune changed. Though Republican Ray Lyman Wilbur was an M.D. and a past president of the A.M.A., his committee's 1932 report was denounced by Fishbein as "socialism and communism." Under Fishbein's leadership, the A.M.A. at first also opposed both hospital insurance and surgical-medical insurance...
Last week the baffled Englishman would have found America even more curious. The latest radio craze was Tune-O, an air version of bingo with a touch of Stop the Music thrown in. Players must first guess the name of the tune being played from a numbered list supplied by the sponsors, then match the tune's number with an accompanying bingo-type card. The first to plot five numbers in a row calls the radio station, screams "Tune-O!" and waits for the prizes to roll in: $1,000 in cash, jewelry, a new automobile...
Started in Manhattan only three months ago, Tune-O has stormed its way into six other large cities (Atlanta, Detroit, Louisville, Miami, Norfolk, San Diego), last fortnight made a dizzying debut to a wildly enthusiastic audience in Washington, D.C. By last week more than 30,000 Tune-O cards had been given out and station WWDC had to install three special lines to handle the crowd...