Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes from downtown Houston, in the vast, $60 million Texas Medical Center still abuilding, the M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute Stands out in a blush of pink marble. Just opened, it has 310 beds and everything that money can buy. But last week, only 98 beds were occupied and no more of the many waiting patients could be admitted. The main reason: shortage of nurses, which even a Texas oilman's millions cannot remedy. The hospital has 48 registered nurses and 66 aides; it needs more than twice as many, and where they will come from, nobody...
...Most of Houston's other hospitals have a dozen to 100 beds lying empty for the same reason. The nurse shortage in Houston is more acute than in most of the nation because the booming city (pop. 700.000) is frantically building hospitals, but the difference is one of degree only. All over the U.S., nurses are in demand and the supply is short...
...Peress reported to Fort Sam Houston, Tex., for active duty and orientation...
...rodeo-circuit tour and winning more prize money ($33,674) than any other rodeo man in the combined events: saddle bronc riding, steer wrestling, bareback riding and calf roping. The San Antonio rodeo was Linderman's fifth of the young 1954 season, after performances at Denver, Fort Worth, Houston and El Paso. This week he pushes to Baton Rouge. His prize money for the year so far: more than...
...from the University of Texas and practiced in San Antonio until 1942. Then he joined the Foreign Service Auxiliary in the Mexico City embassy, serving as a special assistant to Ambassador George Messersmith. Among his tasks: blacklisting firms dealing with Axis countries. In 1945 he joined B.B.A. & S. in Houston and established the firm's Mexican affiliate, which now employs 16 bilingual lawyers mainly concerned with setting up and financing mining, farming, insurance, import-export, banking and oil companies. Business has also taken Holland on fre quent trips to Central and South America. He lives with his wife Betty...