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...Tenfold Step-Up. While these disclosures were being made as unobtrusively as possible, PHS officials succeeded in beating down opposition by some of the vaccine makers so that all eventually accepted amendments to the testing procedures. (If Cutter makes and tests vaccine according to the revised specifications, it can get back into the business.) Spokesmen for both sides had been chattering all week about the new procedures being simply a question of interpretation-as Dr. Jonas E. Salk put it, "like reading the fine print in an insurance policy." But this was not so. The changes, as finally announced, were...
...three main types of polio virus) are mixed to form the triple-threat end product, there must be more tests, using much larger volumes of material. Formerly, one-tenth of 1% of each strain was taken for testing; now, a minimum of 500 cc. must be used-a tenfold increase for a firm making vaccine in lots of 150,000 cc., and probably some increase for all manufacturers...
...prominent businessman for a small loan when he learned that the man held some stock shares on margin. "Anyone who buys on margin is a poor financial risk," said Dodge, thus losing the loan applicant's big corporate account. Nevertheless, Dodge multiplied the Detroit Bank's assets tenfold and attracted 380,000 accounts. "We run a kind of basement dry-goods business," he explained...
...taking as little as 3% profit on sales, where others got as much as 10 or 20%. He built volume on small margins, plowed all earnings back into the company, thus kept expanding. By 1942 his sales were up to $10 million. In the next ten years, they jumped tenfold. He now has ten plants in the U.S. and 19 others around the world, with subsidiaries in England, France, Australia and Canada...
...tanks and guns, was whisked out of sight in 13 minutes, the shortest show of muscle in all Soviet May Day history. That other stock skit on such occasions, the staged break of a little girl from the ranks bearing a bouquet to a beaming Stalin, was multiplied tenfold this year. Ten little girls headed up the steps, handed over ten bouquets, one for each Presidium member, carefully showing no favoritism among the new rulers...