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Word: existent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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Washington showed no signs of objecting. But last week Harry Truman acted-after a fashion. He appointed cob-nosed old (74) Cyrus Ching to the high-sounding post of director of the Wage Stabilization Board, though the board did not yet exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Come & Get It | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...Railway Co., he once almost electrocuted himself repairing an overhead wire, blowing out every fuse in the system. He came to a week later, badly burned and partially blind, lay in bed for 15 weeks. Nobody from the company ever came to see him; accident compensation didn't exist. Ching thought about that. He took a law degree, went back to the el and took over all labor relations problems. Later, he went to U.S. Rubber, stayed for 38 years as director of industrial relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Come & Get It | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...will under no circumstances that I can conceive of or that would possibly exist, accept the nomination for President in 1952," he told a questioner on NBC's Meet the Press show, "and I doubt if there is any possibility that the situation would ever arise thereafter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Happy Birthday to Ike | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...general issue of revision of parietal rules, there will be no recommendation of a change to the faculty. What there will be is a study by the individual Housemasters to see what solutions exist to the problem of entertaining women guests. This problem has grown worse in recent years; the College has increased in size, prices for outside entertainment have gone up, and a larger percentage of students are here on scholarships...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unwelcome Guests: I | 10/21/1950 | See Source »

...speaks of "full-coverage hospital, medical, and surgical insurance plans." No such plans exist. Most programs cover hospitalized illness, which is only half of national medical fees. Almost none of the AMA-approved plans provides for preventive medicine or covers chronic diseases, such as heart disease, arthritis, and diabetes, which claim 26 million victims...

Author: By Daniel Ellsberg, | Title: AMA: III | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

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