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Word: pints (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...estimated, for example, that 100,-ooo casualties would require 600,000 pints of blood over a period of six weeks. It would take 17 freight cars to hold that many pint bottles. To distribute it to casualty stations the city would have to mobilize every vehicle with a refrigeration unit, from meat trucks down to Good Humor wagons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVIL DEFENSE: The City Under the Bomb | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

Last week, three University of Chicago doctors announced a definite figure. Two atomic bombs dropped on a U.S. city might leave 500,000 injured; each victim would need a pint of blood every other day for a month. That comes to 7,500,000 pints - almost half as much as was collected in the U.S. throughout World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How Much Blood? | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

Friendship among University employees proved strong recently when eight men contributed a pint of blood each to George H. DePinto, 15-year-old patrolman of the University police force who is recovering from a lung operation, performed Tuesday, September 5, at the Mount Auburn Hospital...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 10 Friends Donate Blood to Aid Sick Yard Policeman | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

Friendship among University employees proved strong recently when eight men contributed a pint of blood each to George H. DePinto, 15-year-old patrolman of the University police force who is recovering from a lung operation, performed Tuesday, September 5, at the Mount Aubura Hospital...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 10 Friends Donate Blood to Aid Sick Yard Policeman | 9/1/1950 | See Source »

...stuck with the pace for four laps, then gunned and jockeyed his big car into the lead, won by two lengths. In the first semifinal (15 laps) he had a little more trouble. No matter what he did, he was unable to catch a midget red Crosley labeled "½ Pint" which spun into the turns on two wheels, snaked through the bigger cars like a frightened jaywalker, beat Rathman's Cadillac by four lengths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Motor Madness | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

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