Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Andrew Wells Robertson, 85, chairman and chief executive of Westinghouse Electric Corp. from 1929 to 1945, a Pittsburgh lawyer who guided the firm through the Depression into the spectacular growth years of World War II, tripling its sales with new consumer appliances (dishwashers, electric ranges), the first industrial atom smasher (the 1937 Van de Graaff generator) and a vast array of defense equipment; of a stroke; in Pittsburgh...
...been much more expensive for us," said a NASA official. "We'd have had to pay people to do the same work over a longer time. This is not a crash program--we're not developing duplicate systems and then discarding the least efficient, as they did in the atom-bomb project...
...husk Wendell Willkie in the corn belt-and they were right. As Vice President, he headed the wartime Board of Economic Warfare, traveled to Russia, China (where he taught peasants how to use hoes Western-style) and other Allied countries, participated from the beginning in the development of the atom bomb. But he also made many important enemies within the Democratic Party, especially among Southerners and big-city bosses. They prevailed on Roosevelt in 1944 to let the convention drop Wallace in favor of Harry Truman. Wallace became Secretary of Commerce in 1945, and soon proved how right...
...world's nations combined. Its power reactors generate 7% of the island's electricity, and other plants now being built or planned will raise that figure to 12% within three years. The Common Market's Six get only 1.5% of their power from the atom, but that output will be trebled by plants now abuilding. France, the Continent's biggest investor in atomic power, intends to increase its generating capacity as much as tenfold by 1970. The Market's nuclear authority, Euratom, predicts that by 1980 the Six will be producing 280 billion kilowatt-hours...
...Jewish building, and he served two years in jail in New York for inciting to riot. And all the time he never let his fellow Klansmen know that he was a Jew. Said Roy Frankhouser, Grand Dragon of the Pennsylvania Klan: "It was the best-kept secret since the atom bomb...