Word: rhesus
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...into rough weather. In a single year, the line saw its gross plummet nearly 50% from the 1953 peak of $13.6 million. It returned six leased DC-4s, chopped its personnel, and hustled up private air freight, flying everything from European leather goods for the carriage trade to Indian rhesus monkeys for the Salk polio-vaccine program. It bought four new Lockheed Super Constellations to give customers faster service, expanded its service to the point where this year's revenues will top $15 million. Next step: more expansion by buying more long-range Constellations...
...even if no signs of virus can be seen, some of the same vaccine material is tested again, over another week, with fresh kidney tissue. Half a dozen cynom-olgus monkeys get shots (in the arms) ten times as potent as a human child receives. And twelve rhesus monkeys are injected, with the vaccine going into the nervous system-some directly into the brain itself. Even if these monkeys fail to get sick, they must be killed (painlessly by ether) after a month and their nerve tissues are examined minutely...
...boards will fly at heights of 100,000 to 125,000 ft. Man (Major Arthur Murray) has already flown up to 90,000 ft. and at 2½ times the speed of sound. Rockets have gone up 250 miles at speeds up to 3,600 m.p.h., and two rhesus monkeys (named Pat and Mike) have survived the ordeal of being rocketed up to 190,080 ft., are thus the current holders of the world's altitude record...
...northern India's state of Uttar Pradesh last week, Moslem trappers working in teams of four set out their nets before dawn. While three hid, one man walked to a clump .of trees. Loudly he called "Ao! ao! ao!" (Come! come! come!), and began to scatter grain. Rhesus monkeys scrambled down and followed his grain trail. When the monkeys got to the grain in the trap, a hidden operator pulled a cord and meshed them in the netting, an average dozen at a time...
...time attendant to feed and water them three times a day, the 4,000 miles to London. Next, another plane and another attendant took them 3,000 miles to New York's Idlewild Airport and trucks carried them 700 miles to Okatie Farms in South Carolina. There the rhesus monkeys from India were caged with other hordes of "Java" (Cynomolgus) monkeys from the Philippines, to be used as ammunition in a great battle now being fought by medical science. The enemy: polio...