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Electric-power production is a conservative business; it makes electricity just as it did more than a century ago-by driving copper wires through magnetic fields. That is all that happens in the huge, spinning generators of a power station. The rest of the massive apparatus-furnaces, boilers, turbines, condensers, etc. -is only to make the generators spin. Last week Avco Corp. described an infant invention that may grow into a wholly different and more efficient way to generate electricity...
Grants and commitments for the projest thus far have come from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Sloan Foundation, the United States Steel Corporation, the Kennecott Copper Corporation, and the Hudson Gas and Oil Company...
...deposited in sheets up to ½ in-thick, can be shaped to form rocket nozzles and caps for nose cones. Both these parts get punishing heat concentrated on rather small areas. The beauty of Pyrographite is that it conducts heat away from these danger points as fast as copper can, but it does not permit nearly as much heat to pass through it. A Pyrographite nose cone, for instance, spreads the heat of air friction over a large area and permits it to be radiated harmlessly away, but it does not let heat strike through the cone and damage...
...nearly four months old and blighting the general economy. Instead of reaching agreement under presidential and public pressure, as Ike had hoped, the industry and the United Steelworkers were digging in for a prolonged battle of principle (see The Economy). Digging in behind them were such major industries as copper, shipping, railroads and meat packing in what promised to be the greatest labor-management confrontation since the sit-down-strike days of the 1930s. At stake was not only the prosperous pace of business but the President's own strong stand against inflationary wage-price boosts...
Died. Louis Shattuck Gates, 77, onetime (1930-47) president and board chairman (since 1947) of Phelps Dodge, which he helped make into one of copper's Big Three; in Manhattan...