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Last week, for example, the first of five projects to help modernize Persia under a seven-year plan got under way. The first project, costing $6,000,000, was started by Manhattan's Kennedy-Van Saun Manufacturing & Engineering Corp. with the shipment of equipment for a 200-ton-a-day cement plant at Shiraz. Around the plant will be built a model city, complete with hospitals, electric lights...
...billion-dollar Military Assistance Program (MAP) for the North Atlantic Treaty powers was finally moving. Almost a year after the signing of the grand alliance in Washington (April 4, 1949), the first shipment-48 U.S. Navy fighter and bomber planes for France-was made from Norfolk, Va. this week. From now on, the flow of U.S. arms to Europe would be steady and, the Western world hoped, steadying...
Last week, Cashier Hoffman got another letter from her friend on Pitcairn Island, saying that a new shipment of baskets was on the way. But Christian wanted no more sheets or pillowcases in exchange. This time, he asked, would she please send U.S. dollars...
Among the low, brown hills of eastern Tennessee stands a factory whose total product for 1949 weighed less than 1/10,000th of an ounce. The weight of its average shipment is less than that of the graphite in a penciled signature; the container usually weighs a billion times more. Yet the products of this factory, the radioisotope plant at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have already revolutionized many branches of science...
...breathes a sigh of relief when the dangerous stuff goes off the grounds. The work has become routine; last year the plant made 4,715 shipments, an increase of 56% over 1947. Each shipment, besides accomplishing important scientific tasks,.trained more people to deal with the perils of the developing Atomic...