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For Greener Fields
When President Roosevelt endorsed the unification of anti-poliomyelitis activities in the new National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, it was for a compelling reason. Though many millions of dollars had been raised by the Celebrations, and distributed on a thirty-seventy per cent basis to the Warm Springs Foundation and hospitals in the localities raising the money, there were still many, many communities without adequate equipment and medical skill to cope with the after-effects of the disease....