Word: shipments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Initial stimulus for nuclear power development stems from the crisis in Suez oil shipment. Europe now imports twenty-five percent of its fuel and, with industrial reconstruction and expansion, will be forced to increase this proportion yearly. Euratom promises both to stabilize conventional fuel usage at fifty percent of its present figure and correspondingly institute enough atomic power to handle the remainder--plus whatever growth will require...
...when Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies sanctioned a shipment of scrap to Japan, shocked Australians nicknamed him "Pig Iron Bob." When war came, a fever of Jap hatred swept Australia, and lingered on for a decade. As Menzies said: "You only have to mention the word Japanese for it to be worth three headlines." Last week Menzies was making three headlines and more, after a trip to Japan...
...trouble began March 13 when H. E. Northway, Del's father and manager of the Houston plant of M. W. Kellogg Co., was opening a shipment of intensely radioactive pellets of iridium 192, which Kellogg's nuclear division uses to take X-ray pictures of heavy metal objects. Helped by Jackson McVey and two other men, and working with remote-control apparatus from behind a thick shield, Northway opened the 800-lb. shipping container, took out the sealed metal canister full of deadly pellets and put it on a remotely controlled lathe. When the lathe's tool...
Iceless Icebox. For shipping freshly killed poultry and other perishable goods at low cost, an iceless icebox has been developed by Aluminum Co. of America and Stone Container Corp. The carton uses reflecting aluminum foil on the outside to keep products cool in shipment, no matter how hot it gets inside trucks or trains. It is big enough to hold twelve chickens or 50 lbs. of other goods, will keep them at 45° to 48° for eleven hours or longer in temperatures as high...
...addition to the 20 undergraduates in the infirmary, five members of the dining hall staff are also sick. Since the possibility of transmission by a member of the kitchen staff was not established, officials assumed that the disease was due to a particularly bad shipment of food...