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...Zirconium," said National Research Corp.'s Atomic Expert Manson Benedict, "will become as important to atomics as copper is to the electrical industry." What Scientist Benedict was talking about last week was a huge new program by the Atomic Energy Commission to use almost pure zirconium as a construction material for nuclear reactors. To three companies-National Research, Carborundum Co. and National Distillers Corp. -AEC handed out contracts to buy $70 million of the metal over the next five years. From a trickle, zirconium production will soar to 2,200,000 Ibs. annually. Price: around $6.50 a lb., less...
...Yale ('30), spent a year at Harvard Business School, wound up his academic career as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford with a thesis on the U.S. Federal Reserve. He joined the (New York) City Bank Farmers Trust Co. as an economist, shifted to National City as a bond expert, and in 1942 transferred to the New York Trust Co., where he has been since, except for a World War II hitch as a Navy lieutenant. Hayes lives in New Canaan, Conn, with his wife and two children...
Although Greenebaum is leaving, the orchestra will continue under the baton of Michael Senturia. As well as giving expert oboe performances in the cantatas, Senturia conducted Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor. It was clear that he had worked the orchestra hard in rehearsals, for even though he conducted a little stiffly, the volumes and tempi were well chosen, and the orchestra responded well. Despite the loss of its founder, the Bach Society Orchestra should continue to be one of the top musical organizations in Cambridge...
...London Airport on courier missions. He sent Soviet Plane Designer Andrei Tupolev to look at the Britannia, Britain's latest turboprop liner, and Tupolev emerged remarking: "An impressive airplane, but we are building a bigger turboprop, which will carry 170 passengers." He sent Soviet Atomic Expert Igor V. Kurchatov to Harwell to deliver a lecture that left British scientists much impressed (see SCIENCE...
...This tunnel," said the Russian expert, with a note of admiration, "was built to last years. The party responsible must have had a lot of money...