Word: plante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks last week came the Administration's program designed to bolster the nation's sick railroads. For immediate relief, the Administration proposed that the Government guarantee $700 million in loans; $500 million would be used to improve plant and facilities, $200 million for new freight cars. For long-term aid, the Administration wants to: ¶ Give the Interstate Commerce Commission power to drop unprofitable passenger and freight runs, and end the power of state commissions to block the ICC. ¶Tighten up on truckers now exempt from ICC rate regulations, since the Administration...
Last week a House Government Operations subcommittee, investigating some of these nickel deals, wanted to know particularly why the U.S. cannot cut its nickel purchases and get out of the nickel business by selling its $87 million Nicaro nickel plant in eastern Cuba (current annual production: 52 million lbs., about 11% of the free world's supply...
...obstacle is that the U.S. has contracted to pay steep royalties to Freeport Sulphur Co. for the ore that the plant uses, is even now battling to renegotiate the contract and slash the royalties. Few companies are willing to bid on the plant until peace is declared and a steady stream of ore is guaranteed at a good price...
...tests, especially small ones, would be very hard to detect, said he, and the only way to be sure of detection would be to get a complete "opening up of Russia." Nuclear production would be even harder to inspect because of the great possibilities for cheating, e.g., by faking plant accidents and "shutting down" inspected plants while sneak war production went...
...these materials are byproducts of plutonium manufacture, and their sudden drop in price is due to a big new plant that AEC has built in Oak Ridge, Tenn. to purify them. Some of the market possibilities: atomic batteries, radiation sterilization of surgical supplies, large-scale chemical processing, light sources...