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...streamlined washing machines--a kind that takes clothes soiled and dry in one lump and, for a dime in a slot, turns them out damp and clean half an hour later, with no personal attention in between--are another Brunswick selling point to a student's wife, who is apt to have an 8 hour-a-day job in Boston or Cambridge...
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...strength of the strike, Berwick stock has climbed from 17? to 50? a share. Burke owns 300,000 shares. He will get a lump sum "bonus" (amount still undetermined) from his employers, plus 15% of the stock issue in a new Rush Lake-Berwick firm to be called Joe Burke Gold Mines. Mining men last week guessed that he could get half a million dollars for his holdings, if he wanted to sell. Said Joe Burke: "Pot of gold...
Under a 20-year agreement with China's National Resources Commission, Westinghouse International will design buildings, set up machinery and production processes, and train personnel for a $35 million electrical manufacturing plant in China. In return, Westinghouse will get lump-sum payments for its know-how and brain power during the first ten years, royalties on the products during the second ten years...
...controlling fission, the nuclear physicists' big problem was to calculate the probability that a given atom would capture a neutron traveling at a given speed. They found that in a certain type of pile the critical size at which a lump of enriched uranium begins to cook in a nonexplosive chain reaction is 1.5 kilograms (about 3⅓ Ibs.). Theoretically, a pile might heat up to the temperature of the sun (over 6,000°), but no known container can withstand more than 1,500°. The physicists discovered that the simplest way to throttle down a pile...