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...slightly enriched" uranium (more U-235 than in natural uranium), and its moderator and coolant will be ordinary water at 2,000-lbs.-per-sq.-in. pressure and a temperature between 500° and 600° F. This is not high pressure or temperature for a coal-burning steam plant, but it is unusual for a nuclear reactor, and Dr. Smyth anticipates a certain amount of trouble. He does not expect that the plant will produce power at a competitive cost, but he hopes that in practical operation it will show how costs...
...bird called "McCarthy's methods." His albatross has brought him big headlines, but it has also brought him bitter criticism. This week, as a result of his methods in his battle with the Army, the G.O.P. high command was plotting ways to take away some of his steam...
...along the East Coast and last year grossed $19.2 million, has in mind a system similar to the "sea trains" used by the railroads to carry freight cars by water. Using specially designed ramp-loaded ships, the company plans to drive trailers on board at a Southern port, steam them north at 20-knot speeds, where waiting trucks would take them to inland customers. Each ship would make six round trips monthly between Wilmington, N.C. and Northern ports with 240 trailers each trip...
Included in the Russian shopping list were 110 small ships (cargo vessels, tankers and whalers), 110 power stations, 150 steam boilers, two floating docks, $84 million worth of machine tools, railroad equipment. Many of the items were strategic, i.e., useful to a Soviet war economy...
...university professor put it: "Without the means of free expression, it is impossible to gauge the feelings of the Spanish people. It is dangerous to allow them to let off steam because you cannot see in which direction the steam will...