Word: arco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commission is sure the converter will work. The theoretical calculations are complete; the engineering designs are almost complete. No fuel has been bred so far because the reaction will not work except in a full-scale plant. A $3,500,000 plant will soon be built at Arco, Idaho...
...next ten years, AEC expects to spend some $500,000.000-an amount roughly equal to the entire assessed value of the state. The Arco station will become the chief testing ground for the industrial development of atomic energy, including such projects as ship and aircraft propulsion by atomic power...
Last week the pitted, single-lane oi. road to Pocatello bustled with more traffic than Arco had seen for years. Speculators from as far away as Boise bid for lots that had long lain unsold at $10. "We don't want to gouge anyone," protested Realtor Ora Jones. But a lot opposite the Dee, which is the town's only hotel, jumped from $2,000 to $18,000. Said one Pocatellan: "The jackrabbits up there have 'For Sale' signs over their holes...
Found: Problem. Mayor Winfield Scott Marvel, who is also Arco's undertaker and paperhanger, began worrying about such big-city problems as labor unions, jails, and sewage (Arco now uses septic tanks). Other nearby towns caught the atomic fever, began figuring on their share of atomic prosperity. The mayor of Pocatello (pop. 30,000) expansively predicted a population of 100,000 in three years. A poolroom owner refused $70,000 for his place ("That's when two fools met," commented Idaho Congressman John Sanborn...
...little alarmed by the excitement, AEC warned that there would be relatively few workers at first, 6,000 construction workers at peak, only 2,000 permanent settlers after building was complete. But Arco (and Idaho) went right on dreaming of factories in the desert, and daily passenger trains to replace the single coach-and-baggage-car that now shuttles along the Union Pacific spur to Blackfoot...