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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Americana (the "villa" was officially dropped in the 19303), now a snug and thriving little (pop. 10,000) industrial town, opened a new $6,500,000 hydroelectric plant to power its mills, synthetic fertilizer factories, distilleries and farm-machinery assembly plant. Dr. Jones, who is also a city councilman, was one of those on hand to greet Sao Paulo's beefy, ambitious Governor Adhemar de Barros and the planeload of federal officials who flew in for the inauguration of the power plant...
With its swept-back wings and dual power plant, the Skyrocket is closer than the X-I to being a practical supersonic airplane. Flying on its turbojet alone, it has a respectable endurance: about half an hour. In combat, the rocket motor could give it brief bursts of superspeed...
...bottling plant in Kennewick, Wash. (pop. 6,800) two wartime Navy buddies, ex-Lieutenants Robert Philip and Glenn Lee, started the Tri-City Herald, first daily newspaper in Washington's close-linked triangle of Kennewick, Pasco and Richland. In the next two years, their hard-hitting editorial campaigns on local issues earned them a reputation as fearless crusaders, pushed their circulation up from 2,000 to 10,258 and put them in the black. Fortnight ago, they got into their toughest scrap...
Test Case. In Dayton, the first complete electric power failure since the 1913 flood, cut off a radio invitation to visit the formal opening of the city's new electric Dower plant...
Another of Lilienthal's problems was deciding what portion of AEC's resources should go to non-military use. An original estimate of a six-to-eight year head start in atomic bomb production allowed the AEC to go ahead with power-plant and medical research projects; intelligence reports and scientific evidence filtering out of Russia last summer indicated that the estimate was wrong. President Truman's September announcement that Russia had produced an atomic explosion fathered continuing military demands that the AEC concentrate almost entirely on making bombs and improving them. Other questions which Lilienthal worked over while...