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...Zealand government announced last week that the enormous jets of steam that roar out of the ground in the Wairakei district on North Island will be harnessed for a dual purpose. They will generate electricity, and also produce heavy water (deuterium oxide) for use as a moderator in the nuclear power reactors that Britain plans to start building soon (TIME...
Deuterium (heavy hydrogen) is present in all water to the amount of 0.02%, and it can be separated with considerable difficulty by several processes, including fractional distillation. The geothermal plant, financed jointly by Britain and New Zealand, will separate the heavy water from the steam in a special apparatus designed by the British Atomic Energy Authority. Then the steam will run conventional turbines, generating electricity for New Zealand's growing industries...
...like to have called the Manila Pact, though popular usage persistently makes it SEATO). It was formally ratified and put into force in Manila last week, uniting three stoutly anti-Communist Asian nations-Thailand, the Philippines and Pakistan-with powerful overseas friends: the U.S., Britain. France, Australia and New Zealand. Meeting in Bangkok, the eight will...
...Britain's bread, 20 million biscuits a day), with 1954 sales of $154 million and profits of $12,600,000. Overseas, subsidiaries and independent companies carry the Weston name on everything from ice cream to paper boxes, in Canada, India. South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. In the U.S., three Weston firms operate a chain of seven plants from Passaic. N.J. to Tacoma. Wash., making biscuits marketed under three names, including its popular F.F.V. (Famous Food of Virginia) label...
Died. Robert Semple, 82, veteran member of New Zealand's Labor Party, longtime (1935-49) Minister of Public Works in the Labor government, famed for his vigorous, salty soapbox oratory; in New Plymouth, New Zealand. A lover of invective, Semple stirred up a diplomatic storm in 1938 by referring to Hitler and Mussolini as "mad dogs," once defended himself against a charge that he was making unfair profits out of Australian building interests by commenting: "I haven't enough assets in Australia to build a toilet for a cockroach...