Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nowhere on the continent of Europe is the outlook for students more grim than on the troubled Greek peninsula. A World Student Relief investigator wires from Geneva that an undeclared Balkan war, corruption in the home government, and only pitiful and halting efforts at economic recovery make the task of assistance overwhelming...
...health service of the University of Athens, where $3,000 from the Harvard Relief Committee pool has been allotted, reported 1,100 clinical cases of tuberculosis. To treat 20,000 students in the area there are only two doctors and two nurses. Sufferers frequently die in the common tenth month waiting period between initial examination and admission to the 30-bed state sanitarium...
...TLIman, recently returned from Warsaw, saw almost no foreign publications on the newsstands there except Russian magazines and newspapers. When he inquired about TIME'S four Polish subscribers in Warsaw (there are 20 others, all members of the U.S. Embassy staff or of American relief organizations), he found that one was a leader of the Socialist party who had left the country, another had died three months ago, the third was abroad, and the address of the fourth was a destroyed building...
...week's end the authorities began cracking down. In Manhattan, customs agents arrested four men, among them a Custom House clerk and an employee of American Relief for Italy, Inc., charged them with fraudulent use of Government documents and disguising illegal exports as relief shipments. Licenses, said the Department of Commerce, were made out to specific exporters for specific shipments; any exporter caught buying or selling them could be barred from his trade...
Harvard's Red Connelly, who gave way to Herb Merser in the eleventh, struck out the side in two successive innings. Relief pitcher Merser walked three men in his two-inning stint, but allowed no runs and no hits...