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Supply & Demand, The worst drawbacks, however, have nothing to do with G.G. itself. They are matters of supply & demand. It takes almost a pint of blood to make an average shot of G.G. (7 cc). To give protection for a single polio season to all the 41 million U.S. children under 15 might take 100 million shots or more, and there simply is not that much gamma globulin available, nor the blood or plasma to extract it from...
Phillips Brooks House Blood Drive officials are confident today that they will meet and surpass their 2,600-pint goal. Results from all solicitors last night totalled 2,535 pints, with two days left in the drive...
...Philadelphia Athletics' pint-size Pitcher Bobby Shantz (TIME, June 23), over the Boston Red Sox, 5 to 3, to become the first major-league hurler to win 20 games this season...
...carefully whitened doorstep of a tiny terrace home in the Lancashire cotton city of Bolton (pop. 200,000), a milkman set down three pint bottles. "They usually take four," he said, "but with one or two of them on short time, they're down to two or three." At the grocery store down the street, Bolton housewives were no longer buying their full egg ration (one per week). A big bakery, supplying Bolton's suburbs, cut its daily bake by 1,000 loaves...
P.B.H. officials are trying to best last fall's 2,116-pint total, an unofficial collegiate blood record. Red Cross National Headquarters officials say that they tabulate blood contributions only by regions, and thus cannot state whether the University's total is actually the nation's largest. Closest competitor is the University of Idaho with 1,400 pints...