Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roared on in Capitol Hill committee rooms last week, the President of the U.S. and the mayor of Memphis met at the White House for a sensible discussion of the question. Democratic Mayor Frank Tobey told President Eisenhower that Memphis is wholly sincere in its plan to build a steam plant that will replace the power drawn from the Tennessee Valley Authority by the Atomic Energy Commission. By building its own plant, Memphis will be assured of power without Dixon-Yates. Since this fitted the Eisenhower policy of local rather than federal solutions to such problems, the President announced that...
Water by Phone. The changing face of the desert reflects the great migration. New cement plants have sprung up in the Mojave's Ivanpah, Oro Grande and Tehachapi. There are a new steam plant and expanded manganese mine near Las Vegas, Molybdenum Corp. of America's new 50-million-ton "rare earth" mine at Mountain Pass, Calif., a $28 million Hughes guided-missile plant and a Douglas Aircraft experimentation plant at Tucson, industry" new plants at aviation, Phoenix, electronics and a and brand-new, "smokeless $120 million Magma Copper mine, mill smelter and town at San Manuel, Ariz...
...Kefauver making the loudest noises, the Senate passed the bill to appropriate $6,500,000 for construction of transmission lines into Memphis from the site of the proposed Dixon-Yates plant. The appropriation will be nullified if, within 90 days, Memphis makes a definite commitment to build its own steam plant. If Memphis does indeed build its own plant, the proposed Dixon-Yates plant will be unnecessary, and the U.S. will cancel its contract with Dixon-Yates...
...Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. will start building the $2,096,753 plant this year at Fort Belvoir, Va., where it will be used to train Army engineers in atomic power-station construction and maintenance. The reactor, housed in a vapor-tight steel shell, will turn water into steam, light 600 houses. A single charge of atomic fuel will run the reactor for 18 months. In an emergency, it can be hooked up to a conventional steam-generating plant...
Last week, in a brief special session, the Memphis city commission voted to construct a $100 million steam plant. TVA was notified that Memphis would not renew its contract in 1958. If it was a bluff, it was likely to be a costly one: President Eisenhower promptly ordered a review of Dixon-Yates that was seen as a first step toward terminating the contract...