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...place. This creates a maintenance problem for which the Russians aren't prepared." Materials also looked bad, by American standards. "Paint rubs off easily, so we never walked close to walls. Water pipes get rusty, and wires are too narrow-gauge to light more than a 40-watt bulb...
Brighter Lamp. A fluorescent lamp that provides 2½ times as much light as models now in use will be put on sale by Sylvania Electric Products Inc. The VHO (Very High Output) lamp comes in 100-watt, 4-ft., and 200-watt, 8-ft. models...
...food preserving to watchmaking, will hasten the new knowledge on which U.S. industry is building an Atomic Age technology. In the atomic furnace, physicists will explore the structure of metals, search for new plastics, investigate new ways of refining oil, new uses for rubber. Radioisotopes from the 50,000-watt reactor will be used by industry as tracers to track friction damage in machinery, test new chemical carriers for cancer therapy, hunt new manufacturing techniques in fields ranging from rubber to building materials...
...farmer in Corning, in southwest Iowa: "I was just looking at the month's electric bill- $30. Why that's what I used to make in a month as a hired hand back in 1939. And my wife goes down and buys two lamps and puts 100-watt bulbs in them. If I tried to make her live like I did, I'd have to tie her to a post first...
This subject will be brought closer to home soon when a radar network is constructed in Southern Massachusetts to study meteors. A million-watt transmitter will bounce radar waves off meteors onto a string of six receivers spaced seven miles apart. The program is to be completed in conjunction with M.I.T.'s project Lincoln...