Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commercial development of atomic power? In Washington last week the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy opened its annual hearings on the state of the atom, and promptly heard diametrically opposite answers to the question. Said Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss: "No." Said his fellow AEC commissioner, Thomas Murray...
Taking the stand after Strauss, Murray argued that private utilities cannot justify the investment in nuclear reactors in terms of today's electricity needs. Not only is the estimated reactor cost high, but actual construction costs have been running 50% and even 100% above original estimates. The result: many proposed reactor plans have not gone beyond the announcement stage. As a sample of how fast the rest of the world is moving, Murray pointed to EURATOM (the six-nation European Atomic Community-see FOREIGN NEWS), which recently set its 1963 reactor objective at 3,000,000 kw. (equal...
...roadblock to faster reactor progress, said Murray, is the fear of some private utilities that Government reactors (such as those proposed in the Gore-Holifield bill now pending before Congress) would lead to an "atomic TVA." As a way out, Murray suggested that Congress might direct AEC to build some full-scale reactors adjoining AEC plants, thus avoid competing with private power as they would if they were scattered throughout the U.S. At week's end it looked as though some such middle way might have to be found to get the reactor program in high gear-or Congress...
...horror of a case where things had gone too far. In a Mann Act case in a Manhattan courtroom, three call girls testified that at least three times last year one or another of them had given her all for G.E. products. Lewis E. Rinker and John A. Murray, both officials of G.E.'s supply company in Newark, N.J., admitted they paid the girls to entertain important customers, .all in the interests of good business. Said Rinker, at the time one of the supply company's Newark promotion men: "This is public relations. It certainly creates good will...
Both Ad Manager Rinker and his boss, Sales Manager Murray, were summarily fired when the case broke. Fumed G.E.'s Garl Schlaick, general manager of the company's Hotpoint appliance sales division: "General Electric will not, now or ever, condone or tolerate such conduct." The 16 carloads? They have already been delivered and sold...