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Canned Pump. In the atomic-submarine Nautilus (TIME, Dec. 17, 1951), the same heavy water that promotes the nuclear reaction in its atomic furnace will heat the boilers of its steam turbines. This stuff will be dangerous. Even the best modern pumps spring leaks, and the smallest leak of radioactive water would make the submarine's cramped quarters uninhabitable. Westinghouse now has an answer to this atomic-age hazard: a "canned" pump, with all its electrical parts locked tight in stainless steel. The whole pump is buried in the water pipe, needing no seals or packing that can leak...
...General Motors' $2,500, 87-h.p. diesel engine, the smallest G.M. has ever made and suitable for a 26-ft. boat. G.M. claims it is safer and more economical than standard 100 h.p. ($600) gas engines, plans to turn out 5,000 of them this year...
...slum-cramped scrabble; his father had twelve kids to raise on factory wages. But Benny was only ten when he got the break of his life: a chance to play in the boys' band of a neighborhood synagogue (which supplied the instruments). Because he was the smallest, they gave Benny a clarinet...
...runs] without a goal" and thinks that if he runs hard, and makes enough friends, "everything [will be] all right"; Frederick Alderson, treasurer, a tired old company veteran and longtime confidant of the boss; and Loren Shaw, comptroller, who can squeeze profits from pennies, and is sure that the smallest thing may be decisive in the struggle for power ("If you went to another man's office instead of forcing him to come to yours, you openly acknowledged his superiority...
...Labour Party, of which Weinberg was a member until he became president and had to abandon any party affiliation, now is the smallest of the three parties. It includes everything from Fair Deal Democrats to militant Progressives, like Weinberg himself. In pre-war days the party had several Communist members, but today there are none--at least openly. A neo-fascist bloc also is supposed to have flourished within the Conservative party prior to 1941, but all traces of that too have vanished