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...does not absorb as many neutrons as ordinary water). When this solution is flowing in a small-bore pipe, it does not react, because the fissionable uranium atoms are too strung out to form a critical mass. But when the fuel solution flows into a spherical reaction chamber, the compact mass becomes critical. A nuclear chain reaction starts, and heats the solution. Before the reaction goes too far, the solution is sucked away by pumps and forced through a heat exchanger, where it heats ordinary water to produce high-pressure steam (see diagram), which in turn can be harnessed...
Built-in for Permanence? Even Fairman's compact and ingenious device is not the ultimate, say medical researchers...
Another big cause of the industry's cheerfulness was the hearty welcome given to compact cars. American Motors in 1959 turned out 401.440 Ramblers, an 87% gain over 1958, thereby lifting the Rambler from seventh to fourth place, barely a bumper behind Plymouth. If Plymouth's output of 19,726 Valiants is excluded, the Rambler actually was the third largest selling car in 1959. Next year, predicts Romney, compact and small cars will account for 2,340,000 sales, of which more than 500,000 will be Ramblers. To step up production. American will hire 7,000 more...
...year showed a 78% sales gain over 1958, in good part owing to the warm reception given to Dodge's smaller Dart. Studebaker wound up 1959 with output of Larks and Hawks more than 170% ahead of 1958. and no signs that the company is suffering from newer compacts. Particularly pleased with its compact-car entry was Ford. Partly because the Ford Division turned out 101,000 compact Falcons to 79,603 compact Corvairs produced by Chevrolet Ford in 1959 beat Chevy out for first place in the auto production race, the first time since 1935. Ford executives...
professional soldiers who have won star-studded reputations in the postwar business world, the out standing example is General Lucius DuBignon Clay, the compact (5 ft. 9 in., 170 tbs.), hard-driving chairman and chief executive of Continental Can Co. West Pointer ('18) Clay, 62, carried out one of the biggest logistical jobs in history as director of materiel in the Army Service Forces in World War II. After war's end, as commander in chief of U.S. forces in Europe and Military Governor of the U.S. Zone, he directed the reordering and rebuilding of a major segment...