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Show .per heat unit than in any others manner; and thus electricity can be produced at drastically lower cost per kilowatt. There are other ira plrtant advantages in the atomic reator for power generation With electricity playing such a predominant predomi-nant role in American production substantial reduction in its cost should bring a new era to the industrial in-dustrial revolution." Enterprise Needed In his message to Congrees i urgj in- revision of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, President Eisenhower said that for the swift development develop-ment of atomic power, the enterprise, enter-prise, initiative and competitive spirit of individuals and groups within our free economy are needed need-ed to assure the greatest efficiency and progress at the least cost to the public. . . The creation of opportunities op-portunities for broadening industrial indus-trial participation may permit the government to reduce its own reactor re-actor research and development after private industrial activity is well esttablished." After all, it was America's industrial in-dustrial know-how which permitted us to lead the world to the development devel-opment of atomic energy. DuPont, Westinghouse, General Electric and other great industries have built and operated the government's atom installations. Sparked by the competitive spirit, and the promise of revolutionary new developments in manufacturing, private enterprise enter-prise can now take the uranium atom and begin to give mankind the fullness of its constructive benefits. 1 (PS ZOOKIN& JTf AHEAD r'w GEORGES. BENSON j : . A'; ,' Start!. Maitsat LET'S "ATOMIZE" AMERICAN INDUSTRY President Eisenhower has asked Congress to give American industry indus-try the go-ahead for development of atomic energy for non-military production. When Congress approves ap-proves sometime this summer it will mark another milestone in human progress. Within a generation, genera-tion, I predict, the revolutionary new power will have extended its benefits, directly or indirectly, into every community, every urban and farm home in America. It promises, in time, to make virtually everything every-thing that is manufactured less costly to the manufacturer and consumer. The United States News and World Report estimates that already al-ready more than 1,000 industrial firms, including many of the nation's na-tion's largest businesses, are employing em-ploying the new atomic science in everyday factory and shop operations opera-tions and are thus effecting remarkable re-markable savings in production costs. But these usages are relatively rela-tively minor sidelights to the major possibilities that engineers foresee through the development of electric energy in atomic-fueled power stations, sta-tions, and through other development develop-ment avenues. Lifeblood of Production Electricity is the very life-blood of modern progress. You only need to walk through a modern industry ! today to realize the importance of this pulsing, surging current which Ben Franklin brought down out of the sky on a kite string 200 years ago, and which Thomas Edison put to work a century later. Almost 100 per cent of the manufacturing job, in most American industries, now is performed with the energy from electricity. The primary job of the factory employees is to guide the electric energy, with buttons, and levers, and guages, on production produc-tion machines which get the work done. In this industrial job, the atom's big importance is in supplying the heat, to make the steam, to turn the turbines which whirl the gen erators, that send out currents of electricity, to bring to life the great machinery of modern American in-dustry in-dustry Way to Cut Cost Not far from my office in Searcy there is a sprawling aluminum industry. in-dustry. Arkansas produces 97 per cent of the aluminum ore in America. Ameri-ca. To transform ' aluminum oxide into aluminum metal for its thous-and-and-one uses, vast amounts of electricity are required. In a single plant near Hot Springs, more electricity elec-tricity is used than is required for a city of 250,000 population. This electricity is produced by burning natural gas for heat in steam turbines. tur-bines. The gas must be piped from Texas, Louisiana and South Arkansas. Ar-kansas. Atomic engineers tell us that heat can be generated in an atomic reactor at a great deal less cost |