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...powerful Southern Democratic congressional leaders to ignore him. Saund men see to it that the portions of Imperial Valley populated by Protestant Texans and Oklahomans know that Jackie is a Roman Catholic, and Saund asks how Jackie can oppose Government supports for farm prices and favor them for uranium (in which Floyd Odium is one of the nation's biggest investors...
...August production at 104% of rated capacity; steelmakers were behind in their orders, and auto sales were outstripping last year's banner records. Investors in Ontario's Blind River area were getting ready to enjoy a return from some $200 million of risk capital; a dozen new uranium mines were scheduled for production this year. In the West, farmers were hauling in record crops of oats and barley, and harvesting another good wheat crop. Farm cash income for the first six months was up 30% from last year, and still rising. The boom is wonderful while it lasts...
...fine source of energy, one pound of U-235 producing as many calories as 1,500 tons of coal. A modest amount of U-235 could, so far as energy is concerned, propel a commodious space cruiser to the moon and back. But energy is not enough. A uranium-burning rocket motor would have no products of combustion to shoot out of its tail pipe, and without some massive material to jettison, the motor would have no thrust...
...plan for space travel. One of their proposals is a nuclear reactor running a conventional electrical generator. The current from it ionizes atoms of some convenient element and expels them from the tail pipe. An "ionic motor" of this sort can run, theoretically, almost forever on a cupful of uranium...
...COMPANIES are starting to strike it rich in uranium. Phillips Petroleum Co. has uncovered high-grade ore body with estimated 1,500,000 tons of ore on 1,280-acre lease previously shared with Holly Minerals Corp. near Grants, N. Mex., has started talks with AEC to construct processing mill...