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Technical Tricks. Last month at Cumberland, England, British workmen broke ground at last for what may well be the world's first atomic-power station. This week, in the U.S., North American Aviation Inc., builders of the famed F-86 Sabre jet, announced that it has completed the designs for an experimental pilot power plant that is ready for public test-if the tester can be found to take...
Like Britain's Cumberland station, North American's plant will also be able to produce atomic fuel, i.e., plutonium. But its main purpose will be the study of practical production of electric power. Liquid metal (probably sodium) circulating through the reactor will absorb the tremendous heat generated by atomic fission. Piped through a water boiler, the superheated metal will produce steam. The steam, in turn, will drive a conventional turbogenerator...
...Other U.S. Presbyterian bodies: Cumberland Presbyterian Church (membership: 80,000), Colored Cumberland Presbyterian Church (30,000), Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (25,000), Orthodox Presbyterian Church (8,000), two Reformed Presbyterian churches (5,000 and 1,500), Bible Presbyerian Church (no statistics available), Associate Presbyterian Church of North America...
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Depression. In Cumberland, Md., William Lowery, still half asleep, got up on the wrong side of the bed, fell out the second-story window...