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...million-kw. reactor would produce heat cheaply enough for the sort of seawater distillery Physicist Hammond would like to use. But no such reactor has ever been built or seriously contemplated. The biggest one under construction in the U.S., at Bodega Bay north of San Francisco, will generate slightly more than 1,000,000 kw. of heat. For producing electric power, says Hammond, there is no present need for anything larger. But he is sure that the monsters he has in mind can be constructed without trouble. A 25 million-kw. distilling plant would suck in a river...
...first put down roots. There are well over 600,000 Puerto Ricans in New York City (there were fewer than 100,000 in 1945), but there is not really a section that is to Puerto Ricans what Harlem is to Negroes. Almost every sector of the city has a bodega (grocery) or two, and perhaps a Spanish-language movie house...
Docker's Saturday Night. Some evenings Catalino likes to put on his suit, stop for a beer at the corner bodega, and then take a turn at the rumba at the neighborhood dance hall. More often lately he has hurried away to a union meeting. But, though Catalino is a good unionist, forking up 30? a day for dues and the benefit fund, and never failing to consult his delegate on all important matters, he is no Communist. He voted for Grau and the Autentico Party at the last elections, and he goes to church, though not quite...
...sixty-year-old Nicolás Rodriguez Díaz, on his farm in western Cuba, and to some 50,000 colonos (sugar planters) like him, it was startling news. At the cockfight in town, and over a glass of country wine in the bodega afterward, he and fellow colonos talked angrily of raising less cane if they were not cut in on the price rise. Some even heeded the tocsin of the leftist Federation of Campesinos (Farmers), boarded trains and buses for Havana, demonstrated on the Capitolio's steps (see cut). By last week President Grau was reported...
...final, climactic attack would be directed against the center of U.S. Pacific trade, San Francisco. General Lea expected Japanese landings in Bodega Bay to the north and Monterey Bay to the south of the city, then converging attacks...