Word: bloomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Near starvation, her face twisted in pain, seven-year-old Maria was brought to San Salvador's Hospital Benjamin Bloom just in time. While her mother, a poor Indian woman, waited outside, the doctors made an examination. Then Chief Surgeon Carlos Chamorro operated, removed an orange-sized ovarian tumor from the child...
Maria's benefactor is a dapper millionaire banker from Healdsburg, Calif, named Benjamin Bloom. "Benny," as he is known to everybody in San Salvador, built the hospital 22 years ago, and gave it to the government. His one proviso: that he (and after his death, his wife Aline) should have a free hand in running...
...Benjamin Bloom landed in El Salvador in 1890 and went into banking. His steadiest business was the financing of coffee crops. When planters dropped in at his office in San Salvador's Banco Occidental, he usually put them at ease with a couple of smoking-car stories. Then he would bury his face in an oversized telephone mouthpiece that masked his lips and prevented his visitors from hearing his conversation with his clerk about their financial standing...
...taxes, Benny became a citizen of El Salvador. Says Benny, whose fortune is estimated at $25 million: "Everything I have I got from El Salvador, and I intend to leave it all here." Last week he proudly noted that the 500,000th patient had been treated at Hospital Benjamin Bloom...
...heinous result of this [proposed] legislation is something which the average layman has doubtless not considered. That is, what effect would the actual commission of the 'mercy-killing' have on the doctor who performed it? . . . Soon the medical profession would lose the healthy bloom associated with the bringing forth and maintaining of life and it would acquire some of the unsocial, morbid air surrounding the hangman's trade...