Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble, he conceded, is that only the amount of virus killed during the first few days can be measured; after that, there is so little left alive that it may not be detectable. But, he insisted, it goes on getting killed at the same proportionate rate. Practical results in his own laboratory have proved his theory, said Dr. Salk; he can produce safe vaccine with no live virus every time. So could other manufacturers at the time of the Cutter incident. He doubted that some of the tougher testing requirements later imposed by P.H.S. were necessary...
...Rooney, 27, a beat-pounding St. Louis cop. who was a crack high school football player and for five seasons a baseball farm hand for the Cardinals. Soccer, says Rooney, gives him the biggest boot: "It's the speed and the pretty pass work and the extra little amount of roughness. I'm talking about really topnotch teams, though. Most people in this country see sandlot games that just look like a lot of people kicking each other...
...appropriations group okayed the full $1,260,000,000,000 in new cash the President asked for. It also approved Eisenhower's request for authority to transfer 110 million in funds now available, and added 40 million to this amount...
...Federal Reserve Board kept other forms of credit tight, despite the rising clamor of businessmen for easier money. The New York Chamber of Commerce and Chairman William H. Moore of Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. both appealed to the Fed to ease credit by lowering the amount of funds that commercial banks are required to hold in reserve against demand deposits. But Fed Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr., speaking at Richmond, Va., still branded inflation as the economy's enemy No. 1-hardly the talk of a man prepared to make money easier...
...national service as well as a business. Using Electric Boat as his nucleus (the company had plenty of cash but few orders after 1945), he worked out a careful formula for expansion. He wanted solid, well-managed firms that could be picked up for a small amount of cash or an exchange of stock, then made into even better companies...