Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Iron lungs await loading a board a U.S. Air Force Globemaster at Logan International Airport, Boston today (March 6) for flight to Buenos Aires to aid the polio-stricken capital of Argentina where upwards of 800 cases of the disease have been reported since Jan.21. The lungs are being sent by the U.S. Government, through the States Department, the International Cooperation Administration, and the U.S. Air Force with the cooperation of the Pan American Sanity Bureau and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
Iron lungs await loading a board a U.S. Air Force Globemaster at Logan International Airport, Boston today (March 6) for flight to Buenos Aires to aid the polio-stricken capital of Argentina where upwards of 800 cases of the disease have been reported since Jan.21. The lungs are being sent by the U.S. Government, through the States Department, the International Cooperation Administration, and the U.S. Air Force with the cooperation of the Pan American Sanity Bureau and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
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Iron lungs await loading a board a U.S. Air Force Globemaster at Logan International Airport, Boston today (March 6) for flight to Buenos Aires to aid the polio-stricken capital of Argentina where upwards of 800 cases of the disease have been reported since Jan.21. The lungs are being sent by the U.S. Government, through the States Department, the International Cooperation Administration, and the U.S. Air Force with the cooperation of the Pan American Sanity Bureau and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.

Associated Press · [ca. March 1956]

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