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...signs indicated that the boom was still steaming along. Construction hit an alltime peak of $3.3 billion in July. Electric output, reflecting the high rate of industrial activity, set a new weekly high of 8,460,427,000 kilowatt-hours. Auto output for the first seven months of the year was at a record 3,852,624 units. Deposits in mutual-savings banks hit a new high of $23.6 billion. Even farm income, for months the most glaring weak spot in the economy, was off only 5% from last year to $12.6 billion in the first six months. And rosy...
...made of thorium, which neutrons turn into fissionable U-233-Dr. Zinn did not give the cost of natural uranium, but he estimated that if it cost $35 a Ib. (probably a generous figure), the fuel cost of the power produced from it would be only .0013? a kilowatt-hour. The fuel cost of electricity from coal is about .35? a kilowatt-hour-nearly 300 times as much...
...most powerful TV station began telecasting last week from Huntington, W.Va. WSAZ, the only transmitter in the state, had already pioneered by building its own microwave relay stations to link up with the coaxial cable at Cincinnati. It boosted its power to 84,000 watts by installing a 25-kilowatt amplifier and a special antenna with a "gain" of approximately 3.4 times that number. Phone calls and telegrams showed that the TV image is being received in towns nearly 120 miles away. The station estimates an increase of 30,000 square miles in its reception area, plus some...
Distance Shooters. In contrast, the shortsighted indifference to customers of some utilities in other U.S. cities also means smaller per capita electric sales. New York's massive Consolidated Edison Co. (no kin) sells less than 1,200 kilowatt hours per year to its average home customer v. Detroit Edison's 2,168. One-third of Detroit Edison's customers use electric stoves v. 22.8% average for all U.S. utilities. President Cisler concedes that the cost of his "free" services (about 50? a month per customer) gets added to the bill, but Detroit Edison's rates...
Tucked away in the Great Blue Hill weather bureau's long disused kite-room is the station's 3 kilowatt transmitter, powerful enough to produce 20,000 watts of effective radiated power. This was a gift from Professor E.H. Armstrong of Columbia, inventor of the electronic circuit that made FM a reality. From its 630 foot-high platform, this power plant will make possible strong high-quality signals within a 65 mile radius, an area of some one and one third million families...