Word: donor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everyone hates to pay taxes and the new increase isn't going to make anyone any happier, but perhaps if a blood donor were permitted to deduct say $25 from his income tax each time he was a donor, it would make him a little happier tax-wise and also make him feel he was contributing a little more than his dollars to the war effort...
...medicine is called Stable Plasma Protein Solution, and is produced automatically by a machine. Blood does not flow into a bottle, but directly from donor to machine...
...Bequest of the week: $1,000,000 to Princeton, from a millionaire Clearfield,-Pa. coal dealer who never went to college. Only stipulation in the will: that the money be used for some purpose that will bear its donor's name, Abram K. Wright. ¶The Winter Haven, Fla. High School faculty decided not to let their students appear on the same stage with students from Jewett (Negro) High School for a Junior Chamber of Commerce speech contest. Subject for the contestants: "I speak for Democracy...
...Rice, at that time married to the late Mrs. Eleanor Elkins Widener, the donor of the Widener Library, built the Institute at a cost of $235,000. A short time later he was appointed a professor of Geographical Exploration...
During the twenties, the donor, Gordon Selfride (who founded one of London's largest department stores) heard that what was left of the Medici family was selling all the family papers. Although the Italian Government heard, too, and withdrew almost all of them, Selfridge bought enough to make 144 volumes. These were first bound and then given to the Baker Library...