Word: dresdener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BIGGEST NUCLEAR PLANT in U.S., which began operating at Dresden, Ill., will eventually produce power at price generally competitive with coal-produced electricity, if research costs are excluded. Built by G.E. for Chicago's Commonwealth Edison Co., it generates 180,000 kw. of electricity, enough to light 50,000 houses...
...project dear to the heart (such as it is) of East Germany's Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht. Ulbricht poured an estimated $60 million into a vast complex of plants around Dresden, assigned 20,000 workers to the task. East Germany's Communists tut-tutted at West Germany for buying its airliners abroad, and Neues Deutschland boasted that the BB-152 - a stubby four-engine turbojet designed to travel 500 m.p.h. and land safely on only 3,300 ft. of runway-would put the East Germans "into the forefront of international commercial aviation...
Such a failure was no mere disaster: it had to be a crime. Last week, after eleven months in prison, Engineer Manfred Gerlach was brought into a Dresden court and charged with sabotaging development of the 66-152's engines by issuing "false instructions." He had been working for the West German intelligence all along, the prosecution said, and to prove the point brought to the stand his wife and 26-year-old daughter, who dutifully testified that Gerlach had repeatedly declared that "one must damage the state wherever possible." Gerlach was hustled off to life imprisonment. The great...