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...Byrd put his plan for 1952-53 into the Congressional Record.
It would chop the President's budget by $8.6 billion "without impairing
a single essential function." Main suggestions:
Uranium Source. The Atomic Energy Commission announced that it has a number of plants at work and abuilding to get uranium as a byproduct from plants in Florida which are now making phosphate fertilizer. Most of AEC's uranium now comes from the Congo, Canada and Colorado...
This explosion-to-prevent-an-explosion is the unexpected byproduct of research conducted by a pair of English chemists, W. G. Glendinning and A. M. MacLennan. Four years ago, the two scientists set out to compare the "explodability" of kerosene and gasoline vapors. When they first blew up test mixtures of kerosene mist, they discovered that the intricate process of combustion was much slower than they had expected. It took all of one-hundredth of a second for the expanding pressure of the explosion to rise one pound per square inch. That left "bags of time," they decided, to quench...
...bombs of its own. "It is indeed depressing," he said in the House of Commons last February, "that we have been outstripped by the Soviets in this field." So far as the public knows, Britain still hasn't produced a bomb, but last week it proudly hailed a byproduct. British nuclear scientists have learned how to heat a building by tapping the heat given off by a reactor. Beginning this week, a building with 80 offices at Harwell's research station will have central hot-water heating, piped in from the nearby experimental atom pile...
...suffer from what has become their occupational disease: belief that disappointment is life's only certainty. The young writers of the '205 were at least original enough to create personal styles. Today the young writer's flair sometimes turns out to be nothing more than a byproduct of his neuroses...