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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...insurance program: in eight months, the American Medical Association's press-agents had spent a whopping $1,394,000. But to the 3,942 A.M.A. members gathered in Washington, no price seemed too high to fight off the threat of socialized medicine. So the A.M.A. voted, for the first time in its' 102-year history, to levy dues ($25 a year) on its members...
Said Whitaker & Baxter: "The first skirmishes were ended and won. Unfortunately, the war was not." These first skirmishes had been paid for out of $2,250,000 raised from voluntary $25 assessments, which 75% of the A.M.A.'s active, assessable members had paid. The money was running out fast. To pay for the decisive engagement which the A.M.A.'s top brass expects in 1950, conscript dollars were needed. The house of delegates ruled that any doctor who falls 13 months behind in dues would forfeit membership...
...heavy casualties, said Dr. Moyer, need not be. In the first place, four-fifths of the nation's gastric cancer victims are suitable cases, for surgery. If operated on in time, there would be high hope for the majority of them. But the surgery available in most parts of the country is not good enough: although half the patients now die, there are "islands" in this sea of mortality where only one patient out of 20 dies. Among such islands: the Mayo Clinic, University of Minnesota Hospital and Manhattan's Memorial Hospital...
Starting next week, T.W.A. and American Airlines will make daily coach trips with DC-45 between New York and Los Angeles at a one-way fare of $126.50 (including tax), v. a regular first-class fare of $181.53 (railroad coach fare...
...Manhattan's Vat-Craft Corp. displayed a machine which uses radioactive material to dye fabrics. The fabric is first run through a dye solution containing a harmless uranium compound, then dipped into a photo-sensitizing solution. In a light radiation chamber, the color is "developed" in much the same way as a photographic film, and the pigments become an integral part of the fabric...