12/17/1950
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"If there is one of you who has not yet joined the March of Dimes, I urge you to go now and enlist."
"The National Foundation, supported by your gifts, reaches into every corner of the country to find and help the stricken."
"In coming to our rescue through last year's epidemic, the National Foundation exhausted its funds from the 1946 March of Dimes and drew heavily upon its resources."
"The total of dead for that epidemic was more than 20 percent of the victims, most of whom were young children."