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ATOMIC POWER PLANTS, of practical, small size, are coming along fast. North American Aviation has developed 220-lb. reactor that is no bigger than a 5-gal. milk can but produces 3 kw. of power. Small power package was originally designed for space satellites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Nov. 30, 1959 | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Still Life. In San Francisco, U.S. Revenooer Jack Courtney investigated a cache of illegal moonshine in Chinatown, emptied three 5-gal. pickle jars of the grog down a drain, found that the dregs consisted of two chickens, two hawks and a monkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 9, 1959 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

MOONSHINE WHISKY sales last year rose to record $1 billion, and 55,000,000 gal. moonshine production accounted for between 20% and 25% of all liquor consumed in U.S. Government's losses: $750 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Oct. 19, 1959 | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...stop till it gets to Custer, and we'll all look like Custer's men after the battle." At midmorning next day, the men were still fighting. Two Forest Service planes-a converted 6-24 and a Navy torpedo bomber-began bombing hot spots with 500-gal. loads of a slurry made of bentonite and water. Slowly the fire fighters won control, and by midafternoon Deadwood's residents were told to come back home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH DAKOTA: Tales of Deadwood Gulch | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...Peter Gunn (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Rerun of The Jockey, the adventures of a jock from the right side of the track trying to discover whether some guys from the wrong side got to his gal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Aug. 31, 1959 | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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