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...Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. utilized atomic energy to lay the two-ton cornerstone of its new building in Manhattan; a miniature nuclear reactor split ten U-235 atoms generating an electrical impulse which burned a ceremonial ribbon, touched off a magnesium flare and caused a chain hoist to lower the stone one foot into position...
Since war's end, no one had known what to do with Basic Magnesium, the world's biggest magnesium plant. Built in 1941 in the desert in Nevada between Boulder City and Las Vegas, Basic had cost the Government $140 million, and it had its own town, named Henderson, of 1,000 houses. Only the Geneva steel plant ($200 million) and the Big and Little Big Inch pipelines ($146 million) had cost more. Incendiary bombs made from Basic's magnesium had helped raze Tokyo. But in peacetime, the War Assets Administration found it the whitest of elephants...
...fire aboard a DC-6 in three weeks-and both had started near the gasoline-burning heater under the cabin floor. The other plane, a United ship, with 52 aboard, had crashed (TIME, Nov. 3), with no survivors. But the Civil Aeronautics Board had seen enough to order the magnesium emergency landing flares taken out of all DC-6s-a step the lines themselves had long advocated. In the second fire, the airliner may have been saved by the fact that it had no flares to add to the fire...
Wreckage of the United Airlines' DC-6 which caught fire and crashed in Utah's Bryce Canyon a fortnight ago gave up its first clue last week. Investigators discovered that the plane's magnesium parachute flares had burned, guessed that they were responsible for the fierceness of the flames. No one knew yet how the fire started. But the Civil Aeronautics Board ruled that flares-designed to be dropped for night emergency landings and carried at a point where the wing joins the fuselage-must be removed from all DC-6 planes...
...Exploding a new magnesium bomb...