Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whites in Carvell City were passively prejudiced or fiercely intolerant, according to what they heard and how they were aroused. Sometimes they listened to Kirk Mabry, liberal editor of the local Salute. But when Kirk's son, Alan, came home wounded from Guadalcanal, he found that a Negro murder had stirred up the whites and that they were primed to follow the new marshal...
...have lost an arm or a leg has improved enormously since World War I. Then, training and fitting were so incomplete that many casualties soon threw their artificial limbs away because they were too uncomfortable. This time the Army's brisk, blue-eyed Surgeon General Norman T. Kirk (whose book, Amputations, is a surgeon's bible) got six special amputation centers started before the heavy flow of amputation cases began. He believes that with good care, and civilian understanding, no crippled veteran need think of selling pencils on street corners. Good care includes good surgery, a good artificial...
...devices is demonstrations of skill by such famed crippled veterans as Charles Craig McGonegal (TIME, Feb. 14). When a crippled veteran is finally discharged from the Army, he has a life pension (e.g., $30 a month for a leg) and has usually begun to learn a trade. What General Kirk and his staff fear most is that oversolicitous or thoughtless civilians may undo their careful work...
...contrast is the situation in civilian hospitals, where the average ratio of nurses to patients is one to 12. Major General Norman T. Kirk, Surgeon General, said that one hospital in New York has 826 nurses to care for 743 patients...
...Surgeon General Norman T. Kirk and Army Nurse Corps Superintendent Colonel Florence A. Blanchfield scrape the bottom of the barrel for nurses [TIME, Nov. 20], let them ponder the fact that there are several thousand registered men nurses in this country legally denied membership in the Army Nurse Corps...