Word: mill
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Lower-unit-cost reactors and higher output make atomic power closely competitive with fossil fuels in such high-cost areas as California and New England. After three years, the Yankee Atomic Electric plant at Rowe, Mass., is producing power within 1 mill per kw-h of conventional costs (about 10 mills). Pacific Gas & Electric's first atomic plant at Humboldt Bay, Calif., which went critical two months ago, is expected to equal natural-gas costs at 9 mills. P. G. & E. plans to build twelve more atomic power plants by 1980, and the AEC estimates that commercial atomic power...
...fought in the French and Indian War and the Revolution; Sargent's grandfather rode as a teen-ager with Jeb Stuart in the Confederate cavalry. Shriver was reared in Maryland, a devout Catholic and hard-core Democrat. There was a fair amount of money from the family grain mill, built in Union Mills, Md., in 1797, and from a canning business. The son of a Baltimore bank vice president, Sargent prepped at Canterbury School, New Milford, Conn., went on to Yale, graduating cum laude in 1938, got his law degree three years later. While he was still in school...
...months the Washington rumor mill has ground out gossip about who might replace U.S. Ambassador Frederick E. Nolting Jr. when he returns next fall from a two-year tour in the sensitive embassy at Saigon, South Viet Nam. But last week the President's choice took nearly everybody by surprise. The ambassador-designate: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., 61, scion of Massachusetts Republicanism, former G.O.P. Senator who was defeated for reelection in 1952 by aspiring young Democrat John F. Kennedy, sometime Ambassador to the United Nations, 1960 Republican nominee for Vice President, and father of the candidate who lost...
Last May, Courtaulds and I.C.I., which commonly own British Nylon Spinners Ltd., formally healed their split by bidding jointly for an interest in a Lancashire textile mill, Tootal Ltd. Fast-expanding Courtaulds has already bought another Lancashire mill, is negotiating for two more...
...easy tolerance of immigrants. Four of them left Latvia for Brazil near the turn of the century and opened a plant to convert rags into paper. Gradually, the family founded or acquired other companies, and at the start of World War II were asked to build a huge paper mill by Dictator Getulio Vargas, who feared that the war would cut off Brazil's paper imports. When the Klabins objected that a U.S. gearing for war would not export machinery for the plant, Vargas telephoned Franklin Roosevelt and got the Klabins what they wanted...