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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Times-Star was journalism's second major loss in the space of a single week. Only a few days before, rising costs and lagging ad sales had forced Publisher David Stern III to sell the afternoon New Orleans Item (circ. 101,604) to the Times-Picayune Publishing Co., which owns both the morning Times-Picayune (circ. 189,758) and the afternoon States (circ. 101,916). Contributing to the 81-year-old Item's failure: the "unit" ad rate of the Times-Picayune and States, which forced national and classified advertisers to take space in both papers, or neither...
Anyone watching a geyser, hot spring or fumarole (volcanic steam jet) in the U.S. West may well wonder why the earth's hot interior is not used as a source of energy, in the manner of volcanic steam power plants in central Italy. Last week Pacific Gas & Electric Co. of California announced that it has struck a deal to make electricity out of underground steam produced jointly by Magma Power Co. of Los Angeles and Thermal Power Co. of San Francisco...
...magma or the rock around it. The rest is rain water that seeps into the ground and turns to steam when it reaches hot rock. The steam contains less than 1% of noncondensable gases, mostly carbon dioxide, and no corrosive minerals. For the time being, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. will be content with a 12,500-kw. generator, but much more steam may be available. Wells drilled 30 years ago and abandoned as uneconomic have been spouting steam ever since with no loss of pressure. "Neither we nor anyone else," says McCabe, "know whether we are looking at an area...
...great trick to shoot radio waves at the moon and get a faint echo. The Signal Corps did it first in 1946, and even radio hams do it now. But dependable communication by lunar reflection is harder. The Signal Corps and its collaborator, Collins Radio Co. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, use ultrashort waves (810 megacycles, 37 cm.) because they pass without much loss of energy through the ionized layers in the high atmosphere...
...Korean war, commodities went from 146.53 to 179.54 on the Dow-Jones commodity futures index. The current Mideast crisis has brought no such rise. In the two weeks since the Iraqi coup, the index actually eased down from 156.64 to 156.63. Said R. G. Patterson, director of Lamson & Sessions Co., a Cleveland metal fabricator: "We see no signs of scare buying. Nobody is excited...