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Washington Report
BY ALEXANDER BROAD
A NEW CANAL THE Pentagon and the
State Department are actively considering bulla- ing a new Panama Canal.
Already, the government of Nicaragua ha, agreed to code to the US, the necessary land for an entirely sea level canal run- ning through its country,
Already, too, fairly accurüte estimates of east have been drawn up, i would cost about 4 blifton dollars,
The reasons behind the rush 140 hibt hard to Bril. Panamanian Rationalisin 110m always been a potential prob- Jčni, Col. Nasser's suicċess in Sucż Jas, at tcost, storted Panamanidits thinking.
Furthermore, the Panurna Ounal is extremely vulnerable. IL Ly an intricate system of Burrow locks which could be put totally out of action by carefully planted bomb or 41 Bcuilled ship.
Finally, the existing canal i rapidly getting too small; is already too BARTOW for some ships.
Of course.
could b widened-for a lot less than 41% blition. A new canni alongside
It coulé atro be built soinoyhat more cheaply.
That would solve the htt problem-but twl, of
course,
[: וני! איי
the
The first two. The new Cana would Als Ex vulnerable and Punomádións who tend to think that they don't quite Het a square dent out of the existing Ket-up would become still more restive
the sight of 2/44
riches.
The sea level canal through Nicaragua woula be longer but. Just because I would be a se level canal, it would be vulnerable.
Finally,
Jess
the Nicaraguans
think the money they would gul from the US, for transit righta would be well worth theti' while.
The Americans, ton, reckon it would be well worth their while.
GEORGE WASHINGTON NEVER TOLD A LIE!
GROUND
THE OHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY," FEBRUARY 10, 1957.
Cummings
HOLY GROUND
HOLY CROUND
Next Big Throo Conforanco: His Altitude the President recoives Mac and Mollot.
(PURITAN)
HEN
America And Germany: The New New Deal
Warmer & Warmer Gets
The Big Love Affair
by DONALD LUDLOW
WASHINGTON
GREAT link-up between the heavy industries of America and Germany is being forged anew. Its first pickings may well be a large share of markets previously held by Britain in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and South America.
in-
011
In short, in every part of the world where the words "Mude in Britain" might stand as a synonym for "Colonialism." American foreign policy looks Germany with an ever-increasingly warm eye. Because, of course, they could then play the Nicara-
This latest development T guans of against the Pana-perhaps one of the mos manlong thereby thwarting any portant since West Germany temptation to Nasserism., became a member of Nato. And The motive spurring the Ameri- can and West German Industrial- ists is by collaboration to ensure themselves against political up- heavals not only in Europe but in the whole world.
A NEW PLANE
Somewhere over Texas, an outdated 13-30 makes dally Sights.
From its tail project two air scoops. On its tall. too, is a strange device which indicates the presence of radiation,
Behind it flies another air- craft with engineers ready to Jump out and cordon off the area should the B-38 crash,
A
опе ragawatt atomic plant is in the B-30. It is the forerunner uf the atum- powered aircraft and massive secrecy surrounds its daily de- divities.
The
beat the Russins to
*
"crash" programine to atum planes is on in deadly earnest.- It costing a 100 milion year and it will cost nearly a billion dollars before the first genuinely atom-powered craft is rendy.
Blr.
That will be in 1962 or 1003. Meanwhile, defence chiefs and congressmen are growing wor red They fear the tussions are ahead of them. For the problem of adapting the atom
air power is proving for more infractablo than every- body had hoped,
Still, the
B-30 and the
estimates of a date indicate that
it will be solved.
The Atom Age
in the
One after another the buying offices
of big American firins are moving from Paris and other | Western European capitals tu Dusseldorf, the industrial capital of the Ruhr,
d the exchange of stocks.
move
inquiries
Co-
W. S. SCHLIEKER of humming with Essen with the OLIN from - American! concertis MATHIESEN Chemical Cor- seeking either business in poration for three 18.000 West
от Germany ton ore
carrier ships in operation with West Ger. Hamburg.
many companies. HENRY J. KAISER Com- pany for German equipment bought through its DOW offices in Dusseldorf for the new Tata steel mill in India engineered by Kaiser. The Tata mill will have
u year.
WARMER
is
Yes, the. German- American embrace getting warmer.
British business man
orders on their books than the STEEL CORPORATION of capacity of 1,000,000 tons a will have to be pretty can B. So they are looking to Middletown, Ohio, for Germany which in 10 years hus outstripped Britalt in this field. Last year the total value of machinery produced in West Germany
Was 4.107 million dollars an Ihercare of 18 per- cent over the previous year.
Germany's machinery exporis were valued at 1,405 inillion dollors-un increase of 23 per- rent over 1955.
Such a rate of growth is paralleled in Western Europe.
AGGRESSIVE
ERMAN manufacturers
-
10,000,000-ton rolling mill THE BECHTEL COR- wide awake to avoid in West Germany and a PORATION of San Fran being hurt by it. plant in the Argentine.
cisco for buying through its BOCHUNERVEREIN Dusseldorf office equipment vil refinery in (steel) with ARMCO for for an
Colombia. the production of steel for
MARCHAND CALCULA- electrical equipment.
TOR Company of Detroit plant in Bremen.
KLOCKNER STEEL of Duisburg with REPUBLIC STEEL CORPORATION for un exchange of processing information.
KRUPPS of Essen with have the BLAW-KNOX COM-
TRAC-
CATERPILLAR TORS and the INTER- NATIONAL HARVESTER in Dusseldorf. have both established offices
HARNISCHFEGER COR-
in West Ger- makers
Contracts signed 10 tar do not yet Indicate to restore the glant intermikomal curteles of pre-war days which were based on the sharing of
also caught Aunericut eyes PANY of Pittsburgh for a PORATION of Milwaukee, patents, markets, price Axis, by their aggressiveness in mar-
The new idea in collaboration kel research for designing new rolling mill
in forcing the many. projects
the under equipment and
paer of production. ceveloped countries, exchange of technical information, and the use of German machinery by American Arms in foreign con- tracts.
America's makers heavy machinery live
N
of
Dow
teen America and West Ger- important contracts signed be-
inny in recent clude:
THYSSEN more (steel) with the
A bet with a baby
and he made the
months in-
HUGE MILL
of road-building equipment, has set up a factory in Dortmund and has moved its European offices from Paris to Dussel- | doff.
KRUPPS with KOPPERS HUTTE COMPANY of Pittsburgh The Dusseldorf branch of ARMCO to exchange 'nformation. the BANK OF AMERICA is
Fastest Wheels
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by GNIK DEEPS
On Earth
The
EARLY 70 years ago he had to face, and the opposi so simple and obvious now, but In fact he was able to hold his John Boyd Dunlop, on and ridicule he had to that is true of most of the really own over a short distance Scottish iture in those days in the revolutionary inventions. against two well-known
riders *eightles. But tenacity of put veterinary surgeon pose was one of his strongest
who were mounted "Although I was only eight class solid-tyred machines. Both on good- An advisory committee has then living in Belfast, characteristics, and neither de- years old at the time, and too of these riders subsequently recommended that the U.S. give Northern Ireland, perfected rislon nor discouragement could young to know what it was all tried my brother's machine, and up the "Methusalah" system-
an Invention that is now in tum him from what he had once about, I distinctly remember my were amazed at its speed. under which servicemen Ft.
made up his mint to do.
father's first pneumatic ceived regular Intrerees in pay use the world over on all
tyre only question now was, how the being tested by the rolling of tyres were going to wear. just for slaying alive,
typos of road vehicles, from impression that the invention of driving wheel from my brother "There is, I believe, a general two wheels, one the small front. forecs, and out of trouble.
bicycles to heavy articulated the rubber pneumatie tyre was Johnny's tricycle, and the other to order
"My father's next move was They reckon this saps initiative, lorries.
.0. bicycle without costs money beczuse the armý
a disc of wood round which my wheels, He got strips of mild docsn't get eager types and the
is father's pneumatic tyre was steel and had "them shaped in others are harder to train, and
held by a covering of thin linen, rollers to form the rims which Mrs Jenni McClintock, recalled Reads to dunderbeads getting how, as a child of eight, she
The tyre was blown up with were to take the pneumatic "From boyhood, my father Johnny's football pump and the tyres. He fitted the tyres him- spw Dunlop make the first had been-interested in selentine valve tied as you do a football. self, using best quality yucht pneumatic tyre, an experiment problems, particularly those of that was to make his
"My father asked his assist covers. This bleycle was
itsall-cloth nome road transport: He had always ant John Caldwell which of thejected to even more
for the inexpansible world-famous.
recognised the waste of power two tyres would be the faster tests, and was ridden for 3,000 brother."
raid Mrs and reduction of speed pro The small one from the tri- McClintock, "had been given a duced by the uneven road sur cycle,' said he
miles (4,208 ilometres). tricycle,
But when my atul in an unguarded faces of his time. Many methods father throw it along the yard front tyre was never punctured moment my father said to him of damping vibration between I can make you the fastest
istest the rim of the wheel and the The disc with the air tyre not ing that time.
een it did not go, the full length, nor removed from the rim dur- wheels in the world'. From axle occurred to him. He only went the whole length of
rich.
Its Introduction,
however, will cost an immediile 650 mil- llon dollars a year because it recommends higher pay states to begin with. The savings will, come If they come in the long run.
Its futuro alicutenant who
could nearly double his pay by
just staying where he was for
14 years will find that after the first two years in that rank he gets no richer.
...needs brains
Well, of course, I had
more or less ari accident or Shortly before her death in sudden inspiration, This December, 1956, his daughter, quite untrue.
WMY
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then on he was given no peace, thought of flexible spokes, fat the yard but bounded back from Revolutionary Invention so he set to work in the spare springs and coiled springs, but the gale at the end, bedroom, and I well remember discarded them all, and finally
"My father has written
sub-
severe
Tho
how
to the fact that he matto and
my mother being very upset by decided that vibration must be "The Hosepipe Myth", great an importance he attached the conftision when was intercopted at the source-that turned into a temporary works, between the road and the shop, with a motley assortment Tim.
"I should like to make it very fitted the frat blcycle two and plain that my father, never, to have the honour of presenting thought of using a hosepipe, the bleycle on which it was The story that he did so crops flited to the Royal Scottish up now and again. He called Museum,
of strips of rubber, cloth, elin,
to
happen:
"He had very little time for understood
solution and scissors strewn all So Simple; But--i over the place. She became considerably ruffled when tho
In the New York Times has American elm strips were left
001
It "The Hosepipe Blyth' He "Not only did his invention
well appeared an ed, which goes soaking in the bath to make detual experiments, as he was qualities were
what revolutionise rond transport, like Fabulous Flamingo them easier to bend. In fact, kept busy at its velorinary speed and comfort to coralder development of Uig Interlal required for but Indirectly it helped the Hotel in Las Vegas staging the whole house was die oric. Not until he was about A hosepipe atted around, a combustion engine. High speed lavia productions: bullt around organised trying situation for to retire at the age of 40 did he wwel would have been slower on the road would be impossible aaleen girls, holding doctorates, any woman. However, my Have the opportunity to try out than an ordinary solid tyre.
The without the in any subject from accredited father continued to work quite his ideas. It was then that the actual tests he made, on the nov
pneundlic universities. Not to be confused happily,
laca came to him bé thclosing rood were with two tricycles This in turn heload Aviallon
however powerful, the engl with chorus girls...sight | Not An Accident
dif under pressure, in a robes and a bicycle,
whore ligist and kildent enútries danding abilify hectasary" and "Today I find it almost im wid, canvas, tubs placed "bouwbes.
hayo boun avolva-frans - dœperi- good looks too."
possible to realise the offfealties the ronis ANG 118 HAC It bound $ighted with his new tricycle, once gairied on the road.!!
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