Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reference to the letter, "Admirals by the Nose?" by Yeoman Henry Jason, truer words were never spoken. Just one mistake -this also applies to Stateside WACs, WAVES and Red Cross girls...
Coast Guard easily outpaced the Mikkolamen, taking the first three places in the cross country run, and winning by 11 points...
Only the defeat of the cross country team to the Coast Guard Academy, 23 to 31, clouded a string of victories for the Crimson squads Saturday. While Dick Harlow's men were busy scuttling the Coast Guard in the Stadium, nearby on Soldiers Field the soccer Varsity came up with its first win, 3 to 0, against the New London booters. Simitch, Miller, and Aguirre pushed through the tallies, and the strong defensive play of the Crimson halfback line consistently kept the bluejackets well outside the danger zone...
Civilian demand is up because during the war doctors got used to giving blood as a post-surgery routine. But there were still few peacetime plasma plans, and no great rush to make any, partly because the Army has released 1,000,000 pints of blood to the Red Cross for civilian use. In New York City 150 hospitals and the Medical Society have formed an exchange which is a variation of prewar blood banking: anyone needing blood must pay $15 a pint or get two friends to give a pint each to the pool...
...only places where wartime blood donors have yet been asked to continue are Michigan and southeastern Massachusetts. Michigan's donors never stopped, are now bled under the auspices of the State Health Department and the Red Cross. In Massachusetts, by citizens' request, a Red Cross truck will start collecting at local chapters, around November 15. Municipal laboratories will process the blood, and hospitals and doctors can get it free; a doctor can keep a supply in his icebox if he likes. If the system works, it will be expanded to the rest of Massachusetts. National headquarters has notified...