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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Radioactive fish are not the main problem; water free of dissolved solids is essential for other reasons too. In its search for the best place for its new plant, the AEC narrowed its choice to a site on the Red River near Paris, Texas and the site on the Savannah. The two rivers are equally muddy, but silt can be removed by a comparatively cheap filtering process. The Red River, however, carries a large amount of dissolved material which would have to be removed by a chemical process costing $40 million a year. The Savannah gets its water from...
...asked Radio Corp. of America to design a special apparatus to copy pages from books or bound periodicals and send them quickly over a wire. Last week the new high-speed "facsimile transmitter" started working. A chemist at Y-12 site called the library at X-10 site and asked for a two-page article in a chemical journal. In 4½ minutes a copy came out of a receiving apparatus at Y12. No matter how hot the copy might get, it need never contaminate...
Bruce C. Hopper, associate professor of Government, will leave for Washington today to help choose a site for a proposed United States Air Foce Academy...
Skipping lunch, MacArthur boarded the SCAP for an air reconnaissance along the border. The SCAP took MacArthur over the Communist stronghold at Sinuiju, the Suiho power site, and the whole length of the lower Yalu to Hyesanjin, where the 7th Division had reached the river. At Hyesanjin, the SCAP swooped down and waggled its wings in salute. Then it headed southeast for Tokyo...
Obsolete Pilots. Nevertheless, Kindelberger thinks the piloted airplane itself is rapidly heading toward obsolescence as a military weapon; he regards the guided missile as the freshest egg in the basket and believes that North American is its leading mother hen. At the Government's test site at Alamogordo, N. Mex., North American's "NATIV" (North American Test Instrument Vehicle) has soared ten miles high at supersonic speeds. His aerophysics laboratory at Downey, Calif, is ready for actual production of missiles controlled from ground to ground...