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...week by Alco Products Inc. Alco and Manhattan's 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...
...Oshima, outside Tokyo Bay, stands the active volcano Mihara. It bubbles with sulphurous vapor and at irregular intervals shoots out molten rock. Japan has many active volcanoes, but Mihara is specially famed because of the romantic lovers who frequently kill themselves by jumping down its throat. Before World War II, 80 to 90 did this each year, and the steamship company that serves Oshima got rich on tourists who flocked to the island, they said, to watch the volcano, but really to watch the suicides...
...plotting radiation's from neutral atoms, a radio telescope can overcome the limitations of optical telescopes which cannot penetrate the water vapor and cosmic dust clouds in the earth's atmosphere...
...ANGELES AREA ... IS AN IMPORTANT NEWS STORY BUT . . . YOU PUBLISHED A PHOTOGRAPH OF OUR EL SEGUNDO REFINERY OVER THE CAPTION LINE "DENSE SMOKE, POURING FROM STANDARD OIL REFINERY AT EL SEGUNDO . . ." WHICH SURELY IS AN INDICTMENT OF OUR OPERATIONS. [THE "DENSE SMOKE" IS IN REALITY ONLY HARMLESS WATER VAPOR, [PART OF] THE NORMAL OPERATION OF THIS OR ANY MODERN OIL REFINERY ... AS PROOF WE CAN SUPPLY AERIAL PHOTOS TAKEN ON DAYS OF LOW HUMIDITY WHEN THESE VAPORS ARE NOT VISIBLE...
What is the use of condensing the news, if in the space you save you print such devilish vapor...