Word: plante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radio Receptor employees staggered to the street, coughing and choking, their eyes burning. Some collapsed, some vomited. Emergency squads gave oxygen, took dozens of workers to four hospitals; 18 were kept overnight, and some longer. Assistant Deputy Fire Chief Walter C. Wood cleared a two-block area around the plant, kept residents out until 3 a.m., when he thought it was safe...
...dispose of atomic waste is to use it. By reprocessing, some of it can be turned into isotopes for use in medicine, agriculture and industry. A reprocessing plant is already being set up at Oak Ridge. And the House Committee on Science and Astronautics last week reported on another use for atomic wastes: inserted in modified grenades, leftovers from nuclear reactors could be lobbed across enemy lines. The small releasing blast would do almost no damage to roads and real estate. But the radioactivity would, within a reasonably short time, bring death to every person within a wide area...
...average, two points below the record June level of 155%. But activity in most other durable-goods industries increased, and output of nondurable goods reached new highs in July. Last week Radio Corp. of America announced it had cut its usual two-week plant vacations in half to keep up with orders for TV sets, transistor radios and stereo equipment...
...billion cu. ft. of gas to Coastal States Gas Producing Co. at 16? per thousand cu. ft. (with escalator clause), biggest such deal in years. Coastal will build a ten-inch pipeline from the field in Duval and Jim Wells counties to Associated's recycling (i.e., processing) plant 25 miles away near Corpus Christi, hopes to get Federal Power Commission approval in three months. Texas Illinois Natural Gas Pipeline Co. already has an option to buy the gas for the Chicago area. Over the next 20 years, Associated will take in at least $250 million from its new discovery...
...next generation of U.S. military aircraft in what may well be the start of a new cutback in aircraft and missile programs. The Air Force announced that it was abandoning plans to produce high-energy boron aircraft fuels at Olin Mathieson Corp.'s two-city-block, $45 million plant near Niagara Falls, which was scheduled to deliver its first batch of exotic fuel this month. It also canceled a contract with the General Electric Co. for producing the J-93-5 engine to power North American Aviation's "chemical" B70 bomber with a combination of exotic and conventional...