Word: salk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...These doctors and educators et al. who so promptly damn politicians for the unfortunate difficulties in the path of the Salk vaccine distribution [June 13] should be reminded of the one sure way to get rid of our politicians-establish a dictatorship.That will do the trick-if they want to pay the price...
...Jonas Salk, who received the ninth honorary degree given by the college since 1900 . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D...
...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...
...Robert Cutter, president of Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif., wrote in his annual report to stockholders: "We are up to our ears in the Salk poliomyelitis vaccine production. Around the middle of the year you are either going to look on this decision as being very dumb or very smart, depending on how the poliomyelitis vaccine turns out." Last week, as a result of the Salk vaccine, the company was up to its ears in the most unfavorable corporation publicity in recent years. More and more medical men were asking for a re-examination of Salk vaccine production techniques...
From $15.50 to $8.75. Following the ban, the company recalled the unused 256,000 cc. of its Salk vaccine, announced that it would take a loss estimated at $1,250,000. Under the deluge of bad publicity, Cutter stock slumped from $15.50 to $8.75 a share...