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...high-anywhere from $50 million to $100 million. Even groups of companies, working together, may need Government aid, not only in financing the reactor but in the form of a purchase contract for all the plutonium produced. At present, plutonium is the end product of a reactor, and the byproduct is heat. In commercial use, plutonium would be the byproduct, and heat from reactors to drive turbines to make the electricity would be the end product...
...disease, discovered in an Army dependent by Colonel Ogden C. Bruton, is rare, fortunately, and is probably a byproduct of the antibiotic age. "Before the days of penicillin," said Dr. Janeway, "these patients must have succumbed to the extremely severe infections which either caused the condition or first brought it to light." Nobody knows yet whether agammaglobulinemia is present at birth or is picked up later in life. But its discovery may help to explain why some patients never seem to develop resistance against normally mild infections, and may die as a result...
...self-definition was no byproduct of foreign policy. As Eisenhower made clear in his first campaign speeches, he is determined to work from what he considers the true bases of U.S. life. Reason: Only in the rediscovery of its own traditional purposes and directions can the U.S. again become a dynamic force, qualified and capable of ideological, as well as political and economic, leadership against Communism...
...communique went on: "Senator McCarthy . . . pointed out that neither he nor his committee had made or contemplated making any agreement with any . . . foreign shipping groups, but that, as a byproduct of the committee's investigation, certain foreign shipping groups had voluntarily agreed among themselves to abstain from participation in the Communist China trade and inter-Soviet bloc trade, a result which both Secretary Dulles and Senator McCarthy felt was in the national interest . . . Senator McCarthy further advised that if in the future similar information would be developed it would be promptly communicated to the proper authorities...
Foster Dulles had slapped McCarthy's wrist, but he had also held his hand. Reporters surrounded McCarthy and asked about the wrist slap, and about McCarthy's new melody. How did it happen that his negotiated agreement had been reduced to a voluntary byproduct? Said McCarthy: "I don't recall what I said the other day." When a reporter pointed out that he had used the word "negotiations" (it was in the first line of his publicity handout), McCarthy asked: "Did we?" Then he headed for a holiday in Florida...