Word: control
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...press conference next day, President Truman was asked whether he felt the U.S. should make a new bid for atomic control. Harry Truman replied that he had been trying to get world atomic control through the U.N. since 1946. Our position hasn't changed a bit, said the President. There is no use getting all steamed up, he went on, for every possible effort has been made. If the Soviet government would give just a little bit of cooperation the job would be done...
...branded as a narrow-minded pinchpenny who would starve the poor, paralyze the processes of government and hold back progress. None of these charges would quite fit Mississippi's Representative Jamie L. Whitten, or answer what he had discovered about the living habits of the U.S. Insect-Control Agency, the Agriculture Department's Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. His House appropriations subcommittee had dispatched three congressional investigators to discover how the bureau had spent its last $7,000,000 budget. Sample findings...
...Macon, Ga. the White-Fringed Beetle Control Division was paying for upkeep on an airplane which had flown only 30 hours in two years and only two hours in 1949, for testing...
Ewing insists, especially since his recent visit to Britain, that his plan is not "socialized medicine." He reserves that term for systems like the British, in which hospitals have been nationalized. His plan would leave them as at present under private or local control. Also, he maintains, "socialized medicine" covers the systems, common in continental Europe, where doctors are employed by the state...
Having, pared down the problem, the Brookings researchers proceeded to knock down the Ewing solution. Compulsory insurance, they argued, would mean too much governmental regulation and control, which would creep into the relationship between doctor and patient. Furthermore, politics could not be kept out. Worst of all, "the cost of medical care presumably would increase because of a) administrative expenses; b) the tendency of insured persons to make unnecessary and often unreasonable demands upon the medical care services; and c) the tendency of some practitioners and agencies to use the system for their own financial advantage...