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...other hands. The tangled issues of OPA, the draft, labor legislation were squarely, if temporarily, up to Congress. Secretary of State Byrnes was off for Paris, trying to crack the Big Four deadlock on peace treaties. Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch was guiding U.S. plans for control of the atom (see INTERNATIONAL). Poised at dead center, the President had nothing to do but wait...
...week's biggest headlines were on control of the atom (see INTERNATIONAL). But the week's biggest news was in the nation's groceries. It concerned the price of eggs...
Reconstruction Minister Clarence D. Howe introduced a bill in the House calling for Government development and control of atomic energy. The bill would 1) set up a five-man civilian board to conduct atomic research on an annual budget of $3,500,000 and 2) supervise operations of Canada's three uranium plants at Eldorado Mine, N.W.T., Port Hope, Ont., Chalk River, Ont. Minister Howe neatly got around the question whether civilians or the military should control atomic research. He made plain that Canada's research will be only for civilian uses. Military research presumably would be left...
...Atom-powered ships might sail a million miles on a single fuel charge of uranium or plutonium; the prospect was most promising, said General Electric's Vice President Harry A. Winne last week. But atomic power for public utilities, he thought, was not quite so promising. To compete with soft coal at $4 a ton, "fissionable material" would have to sell at $6,000 a pound...
Before the uranium pile was developed for atom bombs, artificial isotopes were made by cyclotrons, and were enormously expensive. The pile produces them much more cheaply, for any substance exposed to the hurricane of neutrons which rages inside the pile quickly becomes radioactive. They are still expensive by ordinary standards, but their cost should fall rapidly. Production at Oak Ridge will be supervised by practical Monsanto Chemical...