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...back-a poisoned dart from a blowgun. He's a goner, of course, as soon as the stuff hits his bloodstream. More nervous mumbling from the natives ("They say this is a bad omen"). Evil forces are clearly trying to prevent Cornel Wilde from rediscovering the uranium mine found by his late brother, poor devil, who was murdered by a steel-clawed Leopard Man. Also barring his way, on his Technicolor plunge into spine-tingling British East Africa, are a process-shot wild elephant, some oinking hippos, a surly cobra and a platoon of phony-looking crocodiles...
ATOM ENERGY INVESTMENT by private U.S. industry will top $500 million this year, says AEChairman Lewis L. Strauss. Companies are spending $270 million to build power reactors and $33 million for parts, $200 million for uranium mining, $25 million for research...
From the military point of view, clean megaton bombs have two strikes against them: 1) they are built at very high cost in explosive yield, presumably because they cannot use cheap and plentiful uranium 238; and 2) they may be good for special military uses, such as obliterating a city whose site must be occupied soon, but they lack the full punch of "dirty" megaton bombs. No one could be sure that a U.S. enemy, for instance, would use a clean bomb to obliterate Washington when the fallout of a dirty one might kill, in addition, most of the inhabitants...
FIRST ATOM POWER PLANT in U.S. using natural uranium as fuel, instead of more expensive uranium enriched with U-235, will be built near Tampa by three Florida utilities. Florida Nuclear Power Group is expected to get AEC subsidy for $40 million plant that will have capacity of 136,000 kw. when it is finished...
Carcasses & Calico. To the adventuring sailors of Portugal's Prince Henry the Navigator, the idea of freedom for the African was as unheard of as the 20th century minerals germanium and uranium now being mined in the Congo. Slavery and servitude were the African's way of life, and in the first west coast trading posts established at the malarial edge of jungles as dark and green and impenetrable as the ocean bottom, native chieftains were only too glad to exchange the surplus humanity of their fiefs for the trinkets and calicoes of the newcomers. The human life...