CONSUMERS COLUMN
Union, Consumers
Consumers Column By CONSUMERS UNION YOU could get along without a dentifrice, many dental authorities agree. Brushing your teeth is important, but it's the toothbrush, not the dentifrice, that...
...Adequate health insurance should cover both doctors' and hospital bills at reasonable yearly rates...
...It should also prevent many severe illnesses by providing regular medical attention, before the illness gets to the hospital stage...
...So do faces...
...Because of the manner in which the USHA housing projects are financed, it seems to us that this work should be extended because it provides for a very large construction volume with only a small annual cost to the federal budget...
...Benefits of the largest plan...
...1, Bost, Worcester Salt...
...But it's better insurance for hospitals than for patients, CU reports...
...And some cheaper models, CU found, give a better shave than the more expensive editions of the same brand...
...Some means should be taken to offset the tremendous loss of business to the building industry which will accrue from the sharp break caused by the stoppage of the PWA projects...
...Even more Important, 3 cents-a-day plans do not cover doctors' bills...
...Arsn...
...federal worla administrator John M.' Carmody and Pres...
...West's, Pepsodent, Squibb, Iodent No...
...Roosevelt urging the passage of pending legislation granting the USHA authority to issue additional bonds...
...The United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers (CIO) says the following shavers are made under contract: Williams Roto-Shaver, Casco, Gem-lectric (in spite of the contract, UERMW considers Gem-lectric anti-union...
...The Intl...
...3 Cents a Day The 3 cents-a-day hospital plan may be the best you can get In your community...
...Consumers Union reports on 46 brands of tooth pastes, tooth powders and liquid dentifrices...
...Among the tooth paste ratings are: Best Buys: Milk-i-dent (Woolworth's), CD (Cooperative Distributors...
...Also Acceptable: Craig-Martin, Colgate, Dr...
...B. Bankhead, Sen...
...And the unions have not made big gains in organizing this new industry...
...Big Business Group Backing U. S. Housing WASHINGTON, D. C—Support of the program of the U. 8. housing authority and the legislation designed to expand the U. S. housing program was expressed here by the National Concrete Masonry association, one of the largest organizations of its kind in the housing industry...
...It's hard to decide in advance whether any particular shaver will suit each individual user...
...CU's present advice is to join a good cooperative health group offering both medical and hospital care, if you can find one...
...of Machinists (AFL) has a closed shop contract with Schick, covering 30-odd skilled workers, but the great majority of workers tup to 1,500 in rush times) is unorganized...
...Union-Made Electric Shavers Unskilled labor does most of the work in manufacturing electric shavers...
...The most your dentifrice will do is flavor the brush and provide a very small amount of help in cleansing...
...Another Is the pressure of the American Medical Assn., which uses its strength to veto prepayment for physicians' care...
...Among the tooth paste tested by CU, 28 per cent were harsh enough to scratch a glass plate...
...Electric Shavers Electric shavers have come down in price and gone up in quality...
...One reason, CU suggests, may be too high administrative expenses, and too high payments to hospitals...
...This does not mean that the choice of a dentifrice is not Important...
...Tooth enamel is softer than the test glass, and so when you use these tooth pastes you take a chance of irreparably damaging your teeth...
...Associated Hospital Service of New York city, have been cut so that in many cases the contract won't cover total hospital costs...
...Brushing your teeth is important, but it's the toothbrush, not the dentifrice, that does the trick...
...If none is available, and if you want and can afford to pay 3 cents a day for hospital service in acute emergency Illness, join a non-profit hospital plan accredited by the American Hospital Assn...
...Some shavers tested by CU this year give as speedy and close a shave as a safety razor...
...Robert F. Wagner (D.-N.Y...
...Beards vary...
...Passage of this legislation at this time is of vital importance because it is our understanding funds will not be appropriated to continue the activities of the public works administration," McCandless wrote the president...
...Therefore CU recommends buying only on a "satisfaction or money back" guarantee...
...Why don't the present hospital insurance plans provide more adequate protection...
...Letters have been sent by Roy N. McCandless, president of the association, to Speaker of the House Win...
Vol. 10 • March 1940 • No. 12
