Word: plante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white, yachtlike ship with its teardrop superstructure is largely President Eisenhower's dream boat. Following up his atoms-for-peace plan, he proposed in 1955 that an existing ship be equipped with an atomic power plant. Congress did him one better, the following year authorized an all-new nuclear vessel, turned the problem over to the Maritime Administration and the Atomic Energy Commission. The result is the $41 million, 22,000-ton Savannah, which, with its nuclear engine, will be capable of cruising without refueling for 350,000 miles over 3½ years...
Although it will carry 60 passengers and 10,000 tons of cargo, Savannah has no hopes of turning a profit, will fulfill its mission if it can lead the way to more efficient models and prove the safety and reliability of seagoing nuclear power. The power plant and 690 lbs. of enriched uranium-to be loaded next spring-will be shielded by a 33-in.-thick ring of water, a steel cylinder, then a 2,000-ton composite shield, and finally by a 24-in. redwood and steel collision mat. Dotted around the ship will be twelve monitors to gauge...
...inner compound, surrounded by 6-ft.-high concrete walls, will have 20 twelve-room fieldstone villas, a state-run shopping center, power plant, and a house of culture that features guest rooms, a theater and a ballroom, reported West Berlin's B.Z. last week. The shopping center is being stocked with Westphalian ham, Danish chickens, French mushrooms and Crimean champagne, all at PX prices. Other amenities: a safe in each villa for classified documents, a radiation-proof bomb shelter. Outside the inner compound are apartment quarters for 150 servants, and barracks for 160 armed guards, said B.Z. The East...
planned to meet rising European and U.S. small-car competition. Company will add $125 million in plant and equipment to boost daily output from 2,400 to 3,000 cars...
Spooks & Bugs. Many businessmen shy away from doing the dirty work, hire private eyes to do it for them. The pros easily ease through plant security by using the most hackneyed ruses: posing as rubbernecking stockholders or newsmen, bribing disloyal employees, even hiring on as employees themselves. When a ranking executive journeys overseas on business, the private eyes often follow to check on what he is looking for. (A cheaper source of supply? New machines? New customers?) And when a top foreign manufacturer comes to the U.S., his U.S. distributor often puts a tail on him to see whether...