Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some blood banks are already making a profit (which may help to pay other hospital costs). The New York State plan is open to abuse because it is proposed to collect three times as much blood as subscribers will need, on the basis of past experience, and the surplus could be sold...
Foundation, the "train" is one of several that are proceeding by different routes to the West Coast. At each large city, trains will stop, collect more boxes and cars. By journey's end at San Francisco, the foundation hopes to have 600 carloads of goods. For the schools of Korea, the most important part of the cargo is the boxes marked especially for them-each filled by the schools...
...Though more or less autonomous, the Institute takes under its wing research projects from regular Yale professors. These include everything from an investigation into how people change their attitudes to the curing of some mental disorders by the re-education of emotions. Through such projects, the Institute hopes to collect a backlog of information that will tell man as much about himself as the physical sciences tell him about nature. "There is nothing more important," says Professor May, "than the ties that hold people together and the prejudices that hold them apart. There are always squeaky wheels. Some...
...jobs and food. In Peking, guards had to drive away 5,000 peasants. Chou En-lai himself unhappily gave the lie at home to the Communists' efforts to pretend to the outside world that the hunger had not come: "People in famine areas should be called upon ... to collect such substitute food as wild herbs for using as food during the period of shortage...
...encourage people to buy common stocks, 106 San Francisco brokers, banks, stores and other sponsors tried an old newspaper stunt. They sent a photographer out to take crowd pictures, circled a face in each one and ran the photos in the local papers. Every person circled could collect a prize of one share of common stock in a West Coast company. At the San Francisco Stock Exchange one day last week, the second lucky winner appeared to get her share of American Trust Co., worth $34.25. The winner: Mrs. Virginia Pennoyer Livermore, great granddaughter of J. P. Morgan...