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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Dr. Castruccio, a one-acre electron farm will produce 1,200 kilowatts, enough to run 20,000 60-watt light bulbs. The plant will weigh 1.7 Ibs. per kw. and cost (on earth) $3.50 per kw. Since the farm can have any desired acreage, Dr. Castruccio feels that power supply should not be a principal problem for a lunar colony...
...Having contributed to Dwight Eisenhower's basic, middle-road political philosophy, Milton helped persuade Ike to run for President in 1952. Again, after the President's 1955 coronary and 1956 ileitis attack, Milton, more than anyone else, helped Ike weigh the pros and cons of standing for reelection. CJ Milton advised and encouraged Dwight Eisenhower to go before the United Nations in 1953 with his historic atoms-for-peace proposal...
...Medicine, who soon proved the isotope-making cyclotron's worth in disease research. World War II gave the isotopes another use: the atom bomb, which the cyclotron helped make possible by producing purified uranium 235. This achievement by Lawrence, one of the six U.S. scientists appointed to weigh the bomb's possibility, was a green light for the Manhattan Project...
FIRST ALUMINUM BEER CANS in U.S. will be marketed by Hawaii Brewing Corp. in the islands. Seamless cans are made by punching single aluminum slug, weigh 50% less than "tin" cans...
Chow Mein on the Mountain. Small, sallow, straggly-mustached, watery-eyed, Chen cuts a less-than-commanding figure. "I am 5 ft. 4 in. tall and weigh 124 Ibs. without my clothes," he says with dignity. Holding his temper under rigid control, he now speaks so softly his subordinates have to strain to hear; if they argue, he clams up and marches out. Feared and respected by politicians,.Chen is popular with the armed forces. Frugal, remote, humorless, Chen serves plain chow mein at his modest home near Chiang's atop Taipei's Grass Mountain, and criticizes colleagues...