Word: shields
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Magnuson, an orthopedic surgeon, succeeds Major General Paul R. Hawley. He helped Dr. Hawley reorganize VA's medical department. Now Dr. Hawley, in addition to his new job of unifying the Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurance plans (TIME, Jan. 19), will help him by staying on as special assistant and adviser...
...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 corporations in 29 states. Last week, at a joint Blue Cross-Blue Shield dinner in Washington's Hotel Statler, a merger was announced. A single administrator will take over the job of nationwide coordination...
...year (he will also get $6,000 Army retirement pay) . He will find his potential practice nine times bigger than it was. In the VA he had 4,000,000 patients ; there are now 29,250,000 members in Blue Cross, 7,250,000 in Blue Shield. And that is only a beginning, announced Roy E. Larsen, president of Manhattan's United Hospital Fund† and former director of the New York Blue Cross. Blue Cross membership increased 15% last year; on that basis, Larsen said, it would take only eight years to reach 100,000,000 members...
...bearing the same crossed-shield device that Italy's Christian Democrats now use for their emblem, led the Lombard League victoriously against the troops of another foreign menace, Barbarossa, at Legnano...
...Anglo-Saxon Americans still retain a warm regard for what we knew as England. But that was a fighting and not a whining England. We think that it is England's tragedy when Englishmen accuse us of wanting to use England as our shield in a war with Russia. What kind of a shield would England make? Unless she gets up off her spiritual fanny, she will be a minor province of the Russian Empire-and soon...