Word: merck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...studies, sending his virus strains for field trials abroad where they would not interfere with the results of the Salk program. At the end of 1959, almost half the U.S. population had received a Salk shot, and already the occurrence of polio had dropped 80%. By the same time, Merck, Sharp, and Dohme Research Laboratories had shipped Sabin's live virus doses to Mexico, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Malaya, Singapore, and the U.S.S.R. Over ten million people were vaccinated in these countries, while in the Belgian Congo 2.2 million took another live virus vaccine, developed by Dr. Herald...
...Merck & Co.,Rahway,N.J.,$2,501,640; Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis...
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...virus which occurs naturally in primates (rhesus and related monkeys) has been shown capable of causing cancer. Both Merck & Co. virologists and Dr. Bernice Eddy of the National Institutes of Health, who reported similar results, had to go back to hamsters to start their cancers growing, but there was no doubt that they got their effects with a virus, known variously as the vacuolating agent and SV (for simian virus) 40. It is the first primate virus shown to cause cancer in any animal...
...best performers; recreation and leisure, where such firms as Brunswick Corp. (bowling equipment) and NAFI Corp. (pleasure boats) have profited by the move to the suburbs and extra leisure time; drugs, where an outpouring of new products has brightened the future of such firms as Schering and Merck; vending machines, which promise to bring a new era of merchandising; and foods, where General Foods, for example, has been a leader in the revolution in the kitchen...