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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blazed in the hilltops around Pretoria, frantic rumors had swept the wretched native settlements that the white men were bent on a bloody sequel to the battle of Blood River, that they would go forth on Dingaan's day to slay black men, women & children. The government broadcast special messages to allay their fears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: On Dingaan's Day | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...Toma uses no special technique on the oldsters. Examples of the notable surgery he has performed: a 2½-hour diaphragmatic hernia operation on a 76-year-old patient, a 1½-hour rectal cancer removal on an 82-year-old woman. He has also nailed a hip fracture for a 97-year-old accident victim, done intestinal resections, gall bladder, bowel cancer and ovarian cyst operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Operating on Oldsters | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

With this surgery, plus special diet and close observation, Dr. Toma and his colleagues have been able to reduce the death rate in the two homes by 75% in the last two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Operating on Oldsters | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Through street-corner collections, donations, special campaigns, and participation in some Community Chests, the army in the U.S. takes in some $25 million a year. Of that amount, it spends more than $18 million on the welfare of men, women & children without regard for race, creed and color. With only 42,500 members, the army spends a larger percentage of its money and effort on the welfare of others than any other single denomination. No faith in the world works harder on society's lowest level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Rooms & Meals. The social centers are only one more department of a program which extends into every corner of human misery and misfortune. The Salvation Army also runs a chain of 115 cheap-rate hotels and lodgings. It operates special emergency havens for runaway girls and alcoholic women, nurseries, summer camps, boys' clubs, a chain of Evangeline Residences for low-income working girls. Its immigration bureau gives advice in deportation cases, straightens out legal tangles. It runs a missing persons bureau, visits prisons and takes on the responsibility of many parolees. It runs ten hospitals, 34 homes for unwed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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