Word: pint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Donnelly thought differently. She got through the first eight months of pregnancy with the help of occasional transfusions. About three weeks ago, Dr. Savas T. Nittis warned that she would need 15 to 25 pints of blood before the baby was due, and more during the birth and afterward. The Donnellys could not afford $35 a pint, but newspaper appeals brought 1,500 volunteer donors...
Short-Term Loan. In Houston, the day after he gave a pint of blood to a hospital bank, John T. Brown was badly cut by a power mower, needed a transfusion, and got his own blood back...
...Take four mixing-spoonfuls of Barbados molasses; two hen's eggs, or one loon's egg; one pint of creamy milk, or one pint of new-fallen snow which also has a rising virtue, and one pint of water. Beat this together...
From $75 to $1,250. Overnight, like the Shmoo, Dagmar became a valuable piece of property. She made a guest appearance on the Red Cross pint-of-blood show, where she read an essay and sang a song. At a mammoth benefit in Madison Square Garden, Dagmar drew more applause (and whistles) than Ed Wynn, Bob Hope or Jimmy Durante. Her NBC salary rocketed from $75 a week to $1,250. ABC gave her $10,000 to sign a network contract that will pay her an additional $2,000 weekly, promised her a TV show of her own next fall...
...Pint Parade (Tues. midnight, ABC radio & TV). Red Cross show starring Milton Berle...