Word: donors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest ever received by Columbia from a living man. On hand was William Black himself, a self-styled "poor kid from Brooklyn," who parlayed a Times Square nut stand into the $33.7 million-a-year Chock Full O'Nuts Corp. At such ceremonies, the honored donor's speech is expected to contain a little modest reminiscence and some high-minded platitudes. What Black delivered instead was a brief, jarring indictment of "unessential" philanthropies. In two minutes flat, he denounced: > Columbia's plan for a $6,000,000 business-school building "that we don't need." ^ >Philanthropist...
...organization of the blood-banking business traces back to the days right after World War II when the American Red Cross was regearing its blood-donor program for peacetime. When it got rolling again, it had to compete with the American Association of Blood Banks, set up in 1947, mainly by community groups for private nonprofit hospitals. The two waged sanguinary warfare for a decade. Not until last year did they put into effect a sense-making national clearinghouse system, so that a patient who gets a transfusion in any of about 5,500 hospitals can receive credit for blood...
Through its 55 regional donor centers, the Red Cross now drains off 2,500,000 pints of blood a year, or 45% of the national consumption. The Red Cross pays donors nothing and does not sell its blood; the only charges it permits are for processing ($3 to $8 a pint) and for actual transfusion by the hospital ($10 to $15 a pint...
...estimated 10% of U.S. transfusion blood is drained from paid donors by commercial supply houses, which sell the blood for profit. They need a license from the National Institutes of Health for interstate shipments. They flourish in the Midwest and the South. One such is the Community Blood and Plasma Service Inc. of Birmingham, Ala., which sold blood to the indicted Westchester dealers, but, far from being implicated, helped Public Health Service officers open up the case. It pays donors an average of $9 but may go to $20 for rare types. In segregated Alabama, its blood is labeled...
Federal inspectors may drop in at any time on blood-donor services and banks under their control, and AABB has an inspection service to make sure that the blood they supply is not only fresh but, so far as possible, free of disease. Even so, donors out to make blood money will sometimes lie about whether they have had malaria, which is hard to check in the laboratory, or hepatitis, which is impossible to check. These diseases are a small but real peril in blood transfusion. Though no case of injury to a patient had been traced to blood supplied...