Word: pint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Billy Meers is four years old. Unless he gets at least a pint of blood a day, Billy Meers will die soon of renal edema, a kidney disease characterized by leakage of blood proteins into the urine. There are hundreds of patients like Billy in the U.S. Their blood needs are so extravagant that most doctors and hospitals give up the fight quickly, and the patient dies...
...floor. They have given all of their own blood that they can. Meanwhile papers all over the U.S. took up the cause. Result: hundreds of donors volunteered to give blood. Cartons of plasma arrived from Boston and Washington; 300 WACs at Chanute Field, Ill. arranged to give a pint of blood apiece. At week's end the Baylor Hospital's blood bank was again in the black; the interminable transfusions began again...
Henry Agard Wallace, often laid out for his oratorical generosities, lay down on a Red Cross cot in Washington, gave his corpuscular pint to the blood bank...
Jacqueline White, cousin of Frank Knox, started collecting honors. For her pint-sized pin-up pictures she was proclaimed the Wallet Girl of the 13th Armored Division...
...procedure for donors between the age of 18 and 21 was changed recently. The present ruling is that anyone between these two ages must have his parents' consent for each time he is to give a pint of blood...