Word: careful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. In Santiago, she turned an old artist's studio in the slums into a six-bed clinic. To persuade the poor, superstitious women that they should have their children at the clinic, tall, good-natured Nurse Schultze gave free care for the first six months of her new enterprise in charity...
Today her clinic has 19 beds; mothers stay ten days, pay 500 pesos (about $15.80) for prenatal care, hospitalization and care of the child until it is six years old. Top Chilean doctors and obstetricians give their services free. Marie Schultze herself gets less than $1,200 a year, lives in a small apartment behind the clinic. Her reward: "The satisfaction I feel when I know I have had a vital part in saving some life...
...increase in U.S. population since 1939, 2) a great boom in hospital insurance plans (nearly 27,000,000 members) and 3) a trend toward treating more & more diseases and delivering more & more babies in a hospital instead of at home. The biggest demand for hospital care is in cities. But the new building program will not be conducted on the principle that the squeaking axle gets the most grease. A major share of the federal funds will be used to build small hospitals and health centers in rural areas, since 40% of U.S. counties have no registered hospitals...
...Sleep (Warner) is wakeful fare for folks who don't care what is going on, or why, so long as the talk is hard and the action harder. The message, if any, seems to be that the life of a private detective is ill-paid, full of social embarrassment, yet not without its compensations...
...Self-Running 10-Inch Scale-Model Delivery-Truck Kit Powered by Magic Motor"- a toy that is easily assembled by any father who follows the simple directions: "Pass Section F through Slot AA, taking care not to fold tabs behind washers (see Fig. 9). . . . Lock into box shape by inserting tabs C,D,E,F,G,H,I,K, and L into slots C,D,E,F,G,H,I,K, and L. . . ." - "with a bestial oath, I drove a safety pin through them and lashed them to the roof...