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...Philadelphia raised the possibility that greatly reduced vaccine doses can supply adequate protection if injected into the skin instead of under it. Writing in Philadelphia Medicine, Dr. Louis Tuft of Temple University reports that, on the basis of limited experiments by Walter Reed's Dr. Maurice Hilleman, one-tenth the present dose given intracutaneously produces approximately the same antibody response as the present recommended dose given subcutaneously. Suggested reason: vaccine injected into the skin is absorbed more slowly, and cells have more time to respond...
...military course, to demand an uncollected registration fee: 55 centesimi (.088 of a cent). And not long ago at great output of bureaucratic labor, the government began paying off Sicilians for damage inflicted by troops of King Francis II during Garibaldi's campaign in 1860. Biggest payment: one-tenth of a cent...
Costs & Carloads. Like many another industry, the roads have paid out a lot more in 1957 to take in a little less. While operating revenues declined only one-tenth of 1% in the first six months, operating expenses rose by $73 million, or 1.8%. Inflation's mischief hit the railroads where it hurts most-in wages, which account for 63% of all operating costs. Though the railroads actually trimmed more than 56,000 employees from their payrolls during the past year, they paid 12.5% more in wages, hiked payrolls by nearly $28 million. The railroads were also hard...
...their basement with discontinued lines, remainders, seconds that they bought far below original price. Then they passed on the savings: an automatic 25% off after twelve days, 50% after 18 days, 75% after 24 days, give it away to charity after 30 days. It rarely went that far. Only one-tenth of 1% of the goods ever went to charity...
Aside from sports cars (he has two) and photography, Krupp's chief recreation is his 66-ft. schooner Germania V, on which he cruises for one or two months a year. Krupp also likes to play skat-at one-tenth of a pfennig a point...