Word: programs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only thing wrong with the $25 assessment on American Medical Association members, to be spent for lobbying against the national health insurance program, is that it's not enough. The A.M.A. should take a page from its own book and charge the good doctors according to their incomes, the way these champions of free enterprise do to the public. Like this: a member surgeon charges a man having a $5,000-a-year income $500 for an essential operation on the man's wife. Ten percent is not at all unusual in such circumstances . . . This plan would provide...
They buckled briskly to business. The President had made it bitingly clear (TIME, Jan. 2) that this was the time and the hour finally to weld a coherent foreign-policy program for Asia. It fell to grey, soldierly Omar Bradley to report, in grey, soldierly words, the J.C.S. decision of the preceding week to stiffen the defense of Formosa, Nationalist China's island stronghold, with a small U.S. military mission. As General Bradley droned on, he knew he was outlining a Pentagon reversal of the State Department's flaccid policy of waiting for something to turn...
...helped work out the food-stamp plan. He served on WPB. spent three years in the Army, returned to serve on the CPA, went to Greece with the first military mission. He stayed to direct Greek trade and commerce, then returned to take charge of the Administration's program for relieving unemployment. He is the President's expert on public-works programs...
Following the lead of U.S. Steel Corp., most of the other steel companies last week upped prices an average of $4 a ton, or 4%. The rise was to compensate for higher costs, including the steelworkers' new pension program. Bethlehem Steel Co. was the first of the big steelmakers to tell just how much its new pensions would cost. Chairman Eugene G. Grace said: "Only a relatively small percentage of employees will . . . receive pensions, because the great majority of them either die or otherwise terminate their employment before . . . pensionable...