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All across the U.S., the needles were flashing, arms were stinging, and the lollipop business was booming. In and around Atlanta last week, 18,301 youngsters in the first and second grades got the Salk polio vaccine provided by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. In Dallas it was 59...
¶ By week's end, about 2,000,000 kids had had the needle, and 2,500,000 more doses of vaccine (1 cc. each) had been shipped to inoculation centers. This was enough to give the first shot to half the 9,000,000 children whom the foundation...
¶ By July 1, there should be enough vaccine to inoculate an additional 17 million kids; by Aug. 1, 9,000,000 more.
Yet if public attention is fickle, it is by no means frivolous. The March of Dimes collected millions, carrying polio research through the most expensive part of its job. Dr. Salk, of course, feels that he must continue research to perfect his vaccine. If the U.S. Public Health Service supports...
Drama is the forte of the March of Dimes. While the organization can hardly expect to dramatize the slow and careful final work on Salk vaccine, it can easily bring the tragedy of leukemia, rheumatic fever, or some other disease to the hearts of the people. Responding in this appeal...