dimes

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The breakthrough arrived in 1955 when Dr. Jonas Salk introduced a safe and effective injected vaccine, funded by grassroots donations to the March of Dimes, then officially known as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Funding: This work was funded by the March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center at UCSF, and by ImmPort.

From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2026

Allen is retired from the Memphis Fire Department and told me that he had once met Pusser and shook his hand as a kid as part of a March of Dimes fundraising event.

From Slate • Nov. 6, 2025

Dimes and quarters now are more than 90% copper.

From Barron's • Oct. 20, 2025

Sweet Jimmy would be back from downtown with a pocketful of Dimes.

From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers