Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leninakan, once Alexandropol, Dr. Joseph Beach, Director of Near East Relief in the Caucasus, described the catastrophe, now thought to have caused 1,500 deaths and wrought $60,000,000 property damage. Said...
...verily believe that our small band of relief workers was spared so that we could rescue the 9,000 helpless Armenian orphans in Leninakan. The terrific seismic forces ceased temporarily, and we succeeded in reaching the Near East Relief orphanages...
...three years of systematic drill and discipline by relief workers, who envisaged just such a calamity,. the children had already begun to dress and to form lines. Within a few minutes we marched them all out in orderly formation to the adjacent fields...
...Soviet authorities, with the help of the American Near East Relief committee, are performing marvels. There is no disorder, no looting. Soldiers carry out police duties. An open-air city is being rapidly organized. There is a continuous supply of food. On the hillside 400 injured are being attended in tents. An operation room is working day and night. There Dr. Walter Sisson of Wauseon, Ohio, has already performed 130 operations by candle light, since the electric plant is in ruins. The population is full of courage and hope...
...commanders of the Red army have pledged 3% of their pay for five months to aid the relief work, and the Soviet Government has appropriated some half million rubles ($250,000) for the same purpose...