Word: houser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From a corner of the Salisbury Plain in Southwest England where the new Harvard-American Red Cross Hospital is just now beginning to take in its first patients, Gerald F. Houser, instructor in Preventive Medicine at the Medical School, has brought back a report of success in spite of difficulties...
...reward of thanks, the large numbers of visitors to the project, which was still unfinished when Houser left it more than a month ago, characterized it as a "great show," which is an English way of expressing the superlative. Such was the enthusiasm and appreciation of the group's English neighbors that overwhelming numbers of invitations to tea interfered with the building...
...smooth in the assembly of the first building, which Dr. Houser called "quite Darwinian, almost protozeau in its concept." But regardless of bad guesses on this side of the water, ingenuity prevailed...
Morale is high among the workers. Houser said, citing the example of two nurses who had gone through a 19 day ordeal in an open boat after their ship half been sunk, but who had completely recovered and were back at work in a couple of days...
...With Dr. Houser will sail Harold B. Foy, of the American Red Cross, who will be director of accounts for the hospital, and Kingsley Van A. Gwyer, an engineer, who will supervise erection of the 126-bed, prefabricated "siege" hospital...