Here Comes the Bloodmobile

Abstract

We'll skip, too, the detailed work of getting a unit scheduled for an area. We'll just get to the place that is scheduled, a huge sprawling manufacturing plant housing some 3000 employees and a warehouse. What happens here, with some exceptions, is duplicated on all the mobile units operating all over the county area, in churches, schools, club rooms, and gymnasiums, every day, Saturdays and Sundays off, of course. You may work in that place one day or a week. You may have to get up at 5:30 A.M. or get home at 4:00 A.M., depending on the scheduled hours of the unit to which you have been assigned. Every week and often every day, different hours and different places. But this morning, you are at the manufacturing plant; you ask three or four workers the way, and eventually you get to the place where the unit will set up. (You get up extra early to allow time for all this.) What do you see? A cleared area as