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Despite a high initial cost of some $8,000,000, the portable reactor looks like an eventual money-saver to the Pentagon. Remote U.S. bases, especially those in the Arctic, burn up vast amounts of oil for heat and diesel-generated electricity at a cost that sometimes reaches $42 a barrel. Using the reactor and its enriched uranium fuel, the Pentagon could free ships and planes for other duties; 1 Ib. of easily transported uranium contains as much energy as 6,350 barrels of fuel oil. AEC has another outlook on the project. Said one AEC physicist: "We are buying...
RUSSIA'S TRADE with the West will pick up. Under British pressure, 15 nations (including the U.S.) have agreed to lift export controls on crude and diesel oils, light machine tools, farm tractors, copper wire, air conditioners, mica, tungsten, some 150 other products. Still under embargo: 170 strategic items, including weapons, uranium and airplanes...
...much allure as an undercooked kipper. But red-mustached, 66-year-old Frank Perkins thrives on it. In the depths of the Depression, when most British businessmen dreaded any venture beyond the lawns of their country estates, Perkins boldly marched out to sell the British trucking industry on the diesel engine. He made his sale, expanded and became England's biggest producer of automotive diesels...
...when others again cautiously retired to safety, Perkins had the courage to expand once more, thus was ready to cash in on Britain's postwar boom in trucking. "Ginger" Perkins built a 575,000-sq.-ft. plant in Peterborough, Northamptonshire that he claims turns out more diesel engines than any other plant in the world. In six years he boosted sales of Perkins Ltd. from $6 million to almost $39 million. Last week Ginger Perkins was ready to start deliveries on his latest big order: 2,000 diesel engines (at $700 apiece) to Yugoslavia for tractors...
While pondering what to do, he pulled out an idea he had tucked away ten years before to improve the diesel engine. Until then, diesels had injected fuel either directly into the cylinder, which made them economical but slow, or through an antechamber, which made them fast but expensive. Perkins combined the best features of each system, and took out a patent. With hard times forcing every British trucker to cut costs, Perkins decided they would welcome an engine that would burn untaxed diesel oil, then about 9? a gallon, v. 18? for gasoline...