Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China hand; and Anna Chan, 24, Shanghai newspaperwoman, daughter of a onetime Chinese consul in San Francisco; in Shanghai. Ex-Flying Tiger Boss Chennault, who stayed in China to run the Fourteenth Air Force after the U.S. got into the fight (and now runs a China airline carrying relief supplies), was divorced 17 months ago by his first wife, who had borne him eight children...
Shocked at the discovery that the Navajo Indians face starvation and even death this winter (TIME, Nov. 3), the nation suddenly began sending them relief. The American Red Cross appropriated $100,000 for "immediate stopgap aid," rushed disaster relief workers to the barren Navajo country. A Navajo Trail Relief Caravan Association gathered up food and clothing in California, started seven truckloads on the way to the reservation. Utah citizens helped too. Congress, conscience-stricken after neglectful years, voted a $2,000,000 relief fund for the Navajo and Hopi tribes...
...will be great difficulty in carrying out large-scale experimentation." Dr. Suits's suggested remedy: a central organization patterned along the lines of the Atomic Energy Commission. With rainmaking control on a national scale, he thinks, a drought-stricken part of the country could be given real rain relief...
When the alcoholic quits trying to "run his own life," his tension, his feeling of hostility toward his fellow men and his sense of isolation disappear; he feels a vast relief and "release of power." Said a Tiebout patient after joining A.A.: "Now I am not unhappy about being unhappy. Before, I used to plan; now I can think without planning...
Supporting the EBP were Racquel Heller, Radcliffe '49, and Mary Saunders, Radcliffe '51, who emphasized the immediate and urgent used for European relief regardless of any possible political motives...