Word: voluntaryism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost everywhere, fuel supplies ran low. In Tennessee, Governor Jim McCord proclaimed a state of emergency, asked all citizens to join in a voluntary conservation program. In 333 Texas and Oklahoma towns, the Lone Star Gas Co. cut off service to all schools and factories.
It was a little like the old Blue Eagle days-without the fanfare. In Washington last week, the oil and steel industries quietly set up plans for voluntary allocation which they hoped would ease the nation's two greatest shortages. The first under the new anti-inflation law, the...
Soon Harriman and other department heads would try to set up similar schemes with the farm implements, petroleum equipment and construction materials industries. Harriman doubted whether the plans would turn out to be anything more than talky-talk. But industry, which knew that controls might be imposed if the voluntary...
The world's two biggest voluntary plans for prepaying hospital and doctors' bills have grown so fast that they are unwieldy. The Blue Cross (which takes care of hospital bills) has 85 locally organized corporations in 47 states*; the newer Blue Shield (for doctors' bills) has 48...
The success of voluntary medical prepayment plans, Larsen asserted, is an adequate answer to advocates of compulsory Government health insurance measures like the Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill. He also tossed a few barbed statistics at the Federal Government: only 300,000 of the 2,000,000 federal employees now participate...