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Enders' team had some success growing it in tissues from human embryos (after therapeutic abortions), but these are hard to get in the U.S. Next they tried human foreskins, which are more plentiful. Finally, they found a way to do it in tissues from monkey kidneys. Equally important, they perfected a mechanical technique which has been adapted to assembly-line mass production, and gave Dr. Salk and other researchers enough viruses to work with...
...does Mrs. Johnston, who will stay there as a guest several months each year. But, she warned, she will leave "if there's any monkey business...
Before their discovery, Dr. Weller explained, polio virus had never been grown on non-nervous tissues, and all research had to be done on monkeys, an expensive procedure. Under the new virus-growth method, however, "one test tube culture has replaced one monkey," and mass production of polio vaccine is now feasible, Dr. Wells said...
Sayre started selling appliances for Kelvinator in 1925, moved up to national sales manager in four years. He switched to Montgomery Ward as appliance boss, in two years converted a $900,000 loss to a $900,000 profit (and became one of the rare "Monkey Ward" alumni to leave on good terms with crotchety Sewell Avery). Then Sayre moved over to Bendix to introduce the nation's first line of automatic washers for the home, sold 42,000 before a single production model came off the line, and eventually put out more automatic washers than all his competitors combined...
...Japanese delicacy favored by Sam Welles is toasted octopus cooked in oil over a charcoal brazier. John Dowling lists a dish he was served in Pnompenh, Cambodia: monkey soup and noodles. One day in 1944, far from his usual Georgia cooking, Correspondent Bill Howland arrived cold and hungry at an Alaskan trading post that boasted a cook who was half-Eskimo, half-Russian. Howland was invited to have dinner. Says he: "It was roasted young bear, garnished with potatoes and gravy, as savory as any dish turned out by Escoffier." On one of his northern trips, Bob Schulman discovered...