Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wires to all three producers, asking them to draw up plans to remove at least part of their facilities to regions where power is more abundant (e.g., the Ohio River). As alternatives, he asked them to determine if the emergency could be met more economically by building additional standby steam plants in the Northwest. In alarm, Northwest Congressmen cried that the real solution is more hydroelectric dams...
Atomic Energy Commission. Since the publication of the Smyth report in 1945, the world has known that controlled fission reaction is possible in an atomic pile, releasing heat slowly over a long period of time. If a safe and economical way to harness this heat to a steam turbine could be devised, it would be an ideal propulsion unit for a submarine. Rickover persuaded the AEC to begin work on a pilot model...
Armed with a top priority, Rickover gathered a staff of bright young officers with a mathematical bent, went with them to the AEC's giant Oak Ridge plant for an atomic refresher course. His engineers and sub men pored over old Annapolis manuals and textbooks on steam turbines, rigged one up, and started figuring ways to hitch it to an atomic boiler. In Washington, the Bureau of Ships began designing a thick new hull to hold the new engine...
...special carbon dioxide removing room to freshen the air its crew breathes. There will be vast space for the complex array of dials and electronic gadgets, huge torpedo rooms to hold a school of homing torpedos. The familiar throbbing diesel engines will be gone. Instead, a single atom-powered steam turbine will drive it swiftly and silently at great depth...
...reach retirement age. So Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. concluded last week after polling 3,000 of its policyholders of all ages. Results: only 24% wanted to stop working altogether at retirement age, 39% hoped to cut down their work load slightly, while 37% preferred to keep going full steam as long as they could. Their favorite goal for part-time occupation after retirement: small-scale farming. Most popular hobby: hunting & fishing...