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Most promising uses for the probe are in connection with a blind person's job. The probe may enable him to read meters, gauges and thermometers, locate lights on telephone switchboards and tell the color of test solutions during chemical analyses. Dunn Engineering has built 50 of the probes, which have been turned over to New York's American Foundation for the Blind for practical testing...
ATOM POWER PLANT for first nuclear-powered merchant ship will be built by Babcock & Wilcox Co. To get AEC contract, the company beat out General Electric, Westinghouse and others. Reactor will be advanced model of thermal type used by atom submarine Nautilus...
FIRST NUCLEAR REACTOR for commercial export has been approved by Atomic Energy Commission. Built by North American Aviation, 50-kw. reactor will go to Japan for use in research. AEC will follow with export licenses for reactors to West Germany, The Netherlands and Brazil. 20TH CENTURY-FOX, second biggest U.S. moviemaker, is moving solidly into television's camp. For $30 million, Fox has given National Telefilm Associates rights to distribute 390 of Fox's best-known pre-1948 films (Laura, The Razor's Edge, Gentleman's Agreement, etc.) over network of 112 U.S. TV stations...
...three years and $300,000 in research. After that, he spent almost three months in Egypt and the Holy Land, shooting his key scenes "in the very places where"-so the picture's publicity puts it-the episodes of Exodus transpired. In the flats back of Cairo, DeMille built the biggest movie set in history, a 60-acre mockup of the traditional "treasure city" of Per-Rameses that probably constituted the biggest piece of construction work undertaken in Egypt since the Suez Canal. For one scene alone, the beginnings of the Exodus, he used more than 20,000 extras...
Back in Hollywood, the producer discovered that the Paramount lot (35 acres) was not big enough to contain his other big scene: the crossing of the Red Sea. He therefore demolished the intervening buildings, joined Paramount and RKO territory, built a 200,000 cubic-foot swimming pool, installed hydraulic equipment that could deluge the area with 360.000 gallons of water in two minutes flat. This scene alone cost more than a million dollars and took 18 months to shoot...