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Britain, short of fuel for her rapidly growing industries, needs atomic power more than the U.S. or Russia. In trying to get it as quickly as possible, British scientists have settled for a comparatively primitive reactor, which uses natural uranium for fuel and is cooled by pressurized carbon dioxide. As they gain experience, Britain's atomic engineers plan to shift to more advanced reactors...
FOLDAWAY SPARE TIRE, almost small enough to fit in glove compartment, will be brought out by Gates Rubber Co. Tire, which will last 1,000 miles, works like inner tube. After pulling flat tire from wheel, motorist loops Gates tire around rim, inflates it with carbon dioxide gas bottle in kit. Gates thinks tire will be boon to sportscar drivers who are cramped for luggage space...
CHEMICAL MERGER will push Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., already one of biggest raw-plastics producers, deeper into consumer fields. In $99 million stock swap, Union Carbide plans to acquire Visking Corp., big producer of cellulose meat casings and polyethylene film (raincoats, containers...
...boxcars) to Houston by inland waterway from the Great Lakes, saves 40% on transportation costs. Most of the oil industry's steel drilling pipe comes in by barge at $9 per ton v. $17 per ton by rail. The savings are so impressive that Union Carbide & Carbon has dredged a nine-mile cut to the waterway to ship goods from its chemical plant at Seadrift, Texas, while Chemstrand Corp. dredged a 22-mile channel near Tallahassee, Fla., to give its huge nylon plant access...
...plants in the next two years. Firestone Tire & Rubber is building a huge chemical plant at Orange, Texas; Dow Chemical is expanding its Freeport. Texas plant by $45 million, while Gulf Oil, Foster Wheeler Corp., Lake Charles Chemical Co., Buckeye Cellulose Corp., Coastal Chemical Corp., Union Carbide & Carbon are pouring in millions more for new facilities along the waterway from Florida to Mexico...