Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...electricity in many parts of Europe. German power experts calculate that a large modern nuclear plant can churn up power for 6 to 61 mills per kilowatt-hour v. 71 to 9 mills for an equivalent coal plant. Hydroelectric power is cheaper than both, but is not widely available. Switzerland and Sweden are opting for nuclear power because they are running out of water sources...
...months, U.S., British and Continental firms will bid for two plants to be built in Belgium and one in Italy, each of which will cost upwards of $100 million. A.E.G. and Siemens are grimly competing for a $60 million plant in southern Germany, and directly across the Rhine in Switzerland Westinghouse and G.E. are fighting over an interconnecting plant. Another fascinating market lies east of the Iron Curtain. West ern nations are now in the mood to consider bids from the satellites-provided that they agree to let inspectors check regularly that the atoms are used only for peaceful power...
...Europe's state-owned power monopolies are expected to place most of their future orders with local suppliers. U.S. equipment companies believe that their most promising markets are in countries that want nuclear power but have not yet begun large-scale production of reactors themselves, notably Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Japan. Beyond that is a vast future market in the developing countries. Eagerly eying South America and Africa, the Western suppliers figure that eventually there should be enough business for just about everyone...
...wasn't there, Charles de Gaulle, also dominated the deliberations of Europe's other trade bloc last week. Meeting in Copenhagen, the seven members of the European Free Trade Association-Britain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria and Portugal-argued over how hotly to pursue their long-range goat of closer trade ties with the Common Market. The big question: Would a major effort only backfire by stirring the French to cause more trouble inside the European Economic Community...
...Swiss chemist and 1948 Nobel Prizewinner for medicine, who in 1939 concocted something he called dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, later known as DDT, which by killing all manner of disease-carrying pests has proved to be one of the greatest health-saving agents yet developed by man; of a stroke; in Basel, Switzerland...