Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boys, four girls), ranging in age from 4 to 17, who are being treated at home for rheumatic heart disease by The Bronx's Montefiore Hospital. The experiment, begun last October as part of Montefiore's broader plan for home care, is being carried out with the help of $52,600 from the New York Heart Association.* The project is being watched closely by hospitals all over...
...months ago Adelheide was organized as a Christian Youth Village. The British military government was faced with alarming numbers of children who crossed from the Russian zone to wander, begging and black-marketeering, from town to town. Germany's Protestant and Catholic churches were called on for help. Both faiths agreed to make Adelheide over into a kind of coeducational Boys Town* and run it jointly. Today it houses 796 children-590 Catholic and 206 Protestant. On the Catholic side (a 22-year-old German law enforces rigid segregation in all joint Protestant-Catholic welfare enterprises) there...
...directors plan to install nine other handicraft shops besides their present carpentry shop. When their charges have attained the ability and maturity to fend for themselves, the directors will help them through the red tape needed to get working papers and a job. Both churches have ambitious plans for Adelheide. By May the Protestants expect to open a hospital that will accommodate 90 paralyzed children; the Catholics are planning to turn the Luftwaffe airport behind the village into a truck farm. The total population will eventually be 2,800, divided equally between the churches...
...should be spent for dividends. Curtiss-Wright paid out $17,000,000 but the stockholders were not quieted. Still faced with rebellion, Vaughan upped himself to board chairman two months ago, raised Wright Aeronautical Vice President William C. Jordan to president and asked Investment Banker Paul V. Shields to help him put some new life into the company. Last week the new life came in-and Curtiss-Wright got one of the biggest shakings-up of its 30-year career...
...Dealer. Banker Shields, who had brought in the new board, was neither an aircraft maker nor, until recently, a stockholder of Curtiss-Wright. But he had other qualifications; as senior partner of Manhattan's Shields & Co., he had helped float some of the biggest U.S. industrial issues and had played a hand in some other big reorganizations, such as the New York Stock Exchange in 1938. Now, as chairman of Curtiss-Wright's executive committee, Shields's next job will be to help President Jordan lure new aircraft designers and production men to Curtiss-Wright to step...