British NHS costs rising says 1953 committee report
A British inquiry reports NHS expenses rose to 1.032 billion dollars in the 1954 fiscal year, up from 1950, about 3.24 percent of treasury revenue. It cites high charges for dental care and prescriptions as excessive, notes free hospital service fuels bed shortages, and urges targeted fee reductions rather than broad increases.
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Washington
Anthony Eden
National Health Service
NHS
Truman
United Kingdom
Treasury
United States
Free medical care for foreigners in Britain sparks wait line concern
British physicians warn foreign visitors receive free treatment costing about 640000 annually. Health Ministry says travel and accommodation costs plus queues for major operations mean foreigners would stay weeks or months. dentists are in shortage and spectacle waits once ran to three months.
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Eigner
Great Britain
Ministry of Health
Drouth Aid Sought for 47 Texas Counties
The Texas state drouth committee asked Washington for drouth relief for 47 additional counties, bringing the total to 120 counties on the program through March 15. Administrative officer Grover C. Carruthers Jr. said emergency feed grants may continue, with $3.5 million of grain purchase orders approved since October though not all orders delivered. The committee withheld the list pending federal action.
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College Station
State
Drouth Committee
Washington
Texas
Grover C. Carruthers Jr
State Agricultural Stabilization Committee
Carruthers
Department of Agriculture
Governor Shivers names Advertising Week in Texas
Governor Shivers designates February 1925 as Advertising Week in Texas and extols the advertising industry as the main stimulant to American business and material progress, noting even a rich nation has spending limits.
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Austin
Shivers
Texas
The
U. S
Houston Post Calls Ike for Second Term
The Houston Post in a page one editorial urges Dwight D. Eisenhower to continue leading the United States for four more years. It praises his honesty bluntness and steady leadership while noting ongoing world tensions and his recovery from a heart attack.
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Houston
Houston Post
America
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower
Eisenhower
the Post
United States
World
Artist argues flat noses are convenient for kissing
Keiichi Takasawa, a prominent Japanese artist, says Japanese women should not fear flat noses. He notes flat faces look younger and that flat noses are convenient for kissing, criticizing the push for Western style nasal augmentation.
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Tokyo
Keiichi Takasawa
Midland Public Safety Building Gets Window Barricade
In Midland a new public safety building will have aluminum bars installed over its windows after incidents. Lawyer Lenard Howell suffered minor cuts when he walked through a window, taking glass with him. A released prisoner also collided with the glass, nearly knocking himself out.
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Midland
Public Safety
Lenard Howell
Auto Industry Faces Winter Car Shortage and Oversupply
Detroit reports a paradox in the 1956 auto market with high overall inventories of unsold cars yet a shortage of four door hardtops. Buick and Oldsmobile led the hardtop trend, while dealers struggle to match supply with demand across 270 model choices including two and four door versions, convertibles, and wagons.
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Detroit
Buick
Oldsmobile
Burglar Paul Wirths Sentenced in $275 Break-In Case
Mineola N Y Paul Wirths the burglar who prowled on the Woodward home roof was given 10 to 20 years for a $275 burglary. He admitted he was on the roof when Mrs Woodward fired the shot that injured her husband. The sentence cited is for the separate burglary not tied to the Woodward incident.
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Mineola
N. Y
Paul Wirths
William Woodward Jr
Wirths
New Drugs Aid Treatment of Asthma and Hay Fever
Twin drugs methorten and methortelone received praise at the American Academy of Allergy meeting for improving breathing in hay fever sufferers and extending life for critical asthmatics. Experts from several cities said the drugs outperform older medicines in relieving deadly bronchial asthma and a broad array of allergic diseases.
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ST. Louis
American Academy of Allergy
Knife swallowed during party by former circus performer
St Paul police report John Werra 40 removed a table knife from his stomach after swallowing it at a house party. He told guests he was a former circus performer and was treated at Ancher Hospital in fair condition after the incident lasting two nights.
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ST. Paul
Minn
John Werra
Ancher Hospital
Werra
French law protects branded cheese output
Paris reports a new French law protects branded cheese makers from fraudulent use of pedigree names. From now on cheeses bearing famous names such as brie camembert and roquefort must come from milk produced delivered and processed in a traditional geographic area according to local usage.
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Paris
Ancient Ice Pours Into Cocktails on Polar Route
On the Scandinavian Airlines Trans Polar route between California and Copenhagen travelers reach Stromfjord Greenland to sample ice a million years old. The ice, carved from Greenland’s ice cap, is trucked to Stromfjord Hotel for serving with cocktails.
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Copenhagen
Scandinavian Airlines
California
Stromfjord
Greenland
Remote Car Starter Sells Sleepy Mornings in Indianapolis
Earnest Taylor, a grease monkey inventor, rigs a breakfast table push button to start his car remotely. A dial sets 7:30 a.m. start with 15 minutes of warmup, auto shutoff if he oversleeps, and no in gear operation to foil thieves. Taylor has a patent pending for the device.
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Indianapolis
Earnest Taylor
Taylor
Subscription Rates in Grayson and Fannin Counties
Rates list for Grayson and Fannin Counties shows outside subscriptions and foreign subscriptions priced at five dollars, with soldiers excluded. The fragment indicates a regional pricing schedule for subscriptions.
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Grayson and
Fannin Counties
Fannin
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