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...FUSION BOOST Another trick available to researchers is to place in the fissionable core a small amount of highly reactive tritium, perhaps mixed with deuterium. Both the isotopes are light gases, and so they can be highly compressed and confined inside the metal. They can also be dispersed through it in some chemical or mechanical way. When the detonator explodes in such a rig, the tritium reacts, turning into helium and raising the temperature of the explosion. Such "fusion-boosted" detonators are much discussed among hydrogen-bomb connoisseurs. The long series of "nuclear devices" that the Atomic Energy Commission tested...
COFFEE prices, now hovering around $1.21 a lb., are climbing faster than expected, will hit $1.50 a lb. by May, say roasters, who see no end in sight to increases. A. & P. has touched off another boost by upping all brands a flat 5? (to sell for $1.09 to $1.17 a lb.), and the rest of the trade will probably have to follow...
...travel on the installment plan, will get its first nationwide test next month. Pan American has made a deal with a finance company, hopes to boost business 25% by letting U.S. travelers fly anywhere over its 83-country route for 10% down, the rest in small monthly (up to 20) installments. Sample trip: one week, with all expenses, in Bermuda for $13 down, $10.82 for twelve months...
...Times to the Moon. The protons keep together like a swarm of bees, and each time they circle the track, they get a boost of electrical energy that increases their speed. Round and round they go, 4,000,000 times in 1.85 seconds. After they have traveled 300,000 miles (1.25 times the distance to the moon), they are moving at almost the speed of light, and each proton carries an explosive cargo of energy...
Unemployment Relief Boost...