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...million plant in Oak Ridge, Tenn., production of Uranium 235 for atomic and hydrogen bombs has never stopped for a second since the process first began ten years ago. In the 44-acre building, which uses as much power as New York City, thousands of motors pump fiercely corrosive gases through endless microscopic filters in a steady surging flow. No one knows what would happen if the process stopped. Last fortnight, the Atomic Energy Commission feared that a strike of 3,500 employees might cause a ruinous stoppage. But the strike was quickly settled. Last week it became clear that...
Spare That Oak. Cooper respects the oak of the law with druidical passion. He still bristles at the recollection of Franklin Roosevelt's court-packing plan or Harry Truman's use of "inherent power" to seize the steel mills. He is just as passionately opposed to attempts of his own party colleagues to rule by fiat or overlook the established law. Cooper was one of the first Senate Republicans to denounce Joe McCarthy openly. He is ferociously opposed to legislation permitting wiretapping by federal law-enforcement officers and to the removal of Fifth Amendment protection from reluctant witnesses...
...decision against TVA stirred up a storm. AEC now buys its power from TVA. But by 1957, expanding AEC plants at Paducah, Ky. and Oak Ridge, Tenn. will need another 600,000 kilowatts of power, much more than TVA can supply. Instead of building up TVA to carry a bigger load, the Administration wants AEC to sign a 25-year contract with two big private-power outfits, Middle South Utilities, Inc., and the Southern Co. Together, the two plants would build a $107 million power and transmission plant at West Memphis, Ark., on the western edge of TVA territory, about...
Also cited by the House were Barrows Dunham, Temple University philosophy professor, whose case appears in detail elsewhere in the paper; two public school teachers, Wilbur Leo Mahaney, Jr., Trappe, Pa., and Mrs. Goldic E. Watson, of Philadelphia; Ole Fagerhaugh, Oak-land, California, warehouseman, John T. Watkins, Rock Island, Illinois, official of the Farm Equipment Workers Union, CIO, and Francis X.T. Crowley of New York City...