Nuclear Power
Achievements
"Washington A new age of
transportation and power open
et in 1954. Its herald was the
" atomic submarine Nautilus,
launched in Connecticut on a
foggy January day.
That first ship ever built for
.nuclear engines stands out in a
: year of high achievement by the
world s constructors, the Na
tional Geographic society says,
Nautilus will be capable of
circling . the globe submerged.
More significant still, her engine
room represents man's first
large-scale harnessing of atomic
energy for useful power. At
omic ocean liners, locomotives,
and electric plants have -come
a long step closer to reality.
Airborne Atomic Furnace
In December, nuclear power
again was underscored by a con
tract awarded for an atomic
"package reactor." The unit will
be transportable by air.' It can
generate "electricity in remote
regions such as the Arctic,' far
frcra conventional fuels.
- Engineering - accomplishments
all around the earth in the last
year gave peoples more avail
able power and productive
wealth.
A push of a powerhouse but
& ton in northern British Colum
- bia started Canada's vast hydro
electric and aluminum project
centered at Kitimat. Across
North America, the first ore
dfrom vast Quebec-Labrador
iron deposits was shipped south
to steel mills via the new port
of . Seven Islands on the St.
Lawrence river.
' The long-disputed Str Law
rence Seaway itself got under
way as excavation began at
two places opposite Montreal.
" Near Oak Rridge, Tenn.; the
new Kingston power plant of
the TVA system generated its
first electricity. One of six TVA
plants now being built, King
ston will be the largest steam
plant in the worjd, officials
say. It will produce enough
power for a city two and a half
times the size of Detroit.
Damming Missouri, Nile
- At a telegraphed signal from
-President Eisenhower, Ft., Ran
dall dam, one of the key dam
projects for development and
control 1 of - the Missouri ' river,
began sending its first electric
power out into South Dakota
and -Nebraska. Pine Flat dam,
a 440,-foot concrete wall, was
dedicated on California's Kings
river, ranking among the 10
highest dams ever built.
Around the world, ' the main i
How of the Nile river was
stopped at its- source for a few
dramatic moments as Queen
Elizabeth II opened tfie great
Owen Falls dam at the outlet
of Lake Victoria in Uganda.
rhat(body,cof .water, the size of
'Scotland, ; . thus becomes the
world's largest reservoir,
v Earth-filled Travers dam in
Canada's Bow River develop
ment began, giving water to Al
berta prairies. - Capilano dam
near Vancouver, Canada's high
est dam at 325 feet, was dedi
cated in November. The Gaspe
peninsula received new power
cables under the St. Lawrence,
Power dams were finished in
French Africa, Portugal, Puerto
Rico, India,' ' Russia,.. Greece,
Turkey, Formosa, .and Den
mark's Faeroe islands. In Lat
in America, El" Salvador dedi
cated its big "Fifth of Novem
ber" dam. Mexico and Brazil op
ened new steam plants.
Perhaps the most unusual
hew hydroelectric plant, how
. ever," stands in a'-CatskilT corn
field north , of New York City
with no water - in sight. It
, uses instead water pressure in
a deep, concrete-lined aqueduct
from the new Neversink reser
voir five miles away. ,
-Aluminum, Steel, Oil
. - With : electricity . made ; by
burning lignite soft, "brown
coal" a $100,000,000 aluminum
plantvent to full production in
Rockdale, Tex. Both Brazil and
Colombia dedicated big new in
tegrated steel plants, Brazil at
Selo Horizonte, Colombia at
Belencito. , - '. .
The Philippine Republic's first
pu refinery opened at Batangas
bay south of Manila. Aden,
Australia, Burma, Colombia and
India operated new. refineries.
The second largest oil plant in
Great Britain, with a million
ton annual capacity for crude
petroleum, went "on steam" at
Coryton near London.
? The bottom of the Gulf of
Mexico continued to be drilled
for oil wells as far as 25 miles
offshore. Petroleum then ran
through a new submarine pipe
line from tankers in Accra har
Txr to. Gold Coast distribution
points, as well as in a new 32-
znile pipeline in Trinidad.
. A shipyard in Hamburg, Ger
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Plant for Submarine Tops
in 1954; Others Increase Power, Wealth
many, launched the world's big
gest tanker, the King Ibn Saud
flag, it can carry 47,000 tons of
oil, as much as a train of tank
cars 25 miles long. .Two other
big tankers, the 45,000-ton
world Glory and the 38,000
ton W. Alton Jones, were com
pleted .in American yards.
Both will, fly Liberian colors.
Marine constructors crowned
the year by launching the air
craft USS Forrestal at Newport
News, Virginia. The largest war-
snip anoar, longer man any
passenger liner, .the Forrestal
will not be completed until the
end of 1955.
New Sea Havens -
Major port -and docking pro
jects were undertaken in Vene
zuela and Peru; San Juan, Pu
erto Rico; Mtwara in Tangan
yika; Tema, Gold Coast, and
Samsun, Turkey. In this coun
try, New York City, Newark,
N. J., Philadelphia, Chicago
and Mobile, Ala., dedicated new
piers. Antwerp, Hamburg and
London finished huge new
docks; Karachi, Pakistan, open
ed the biggest drydock between
Malta and Singapore.
The Turkish navy has com
missioned a new naval base at
Iskeneron, Australia completed
a naval .defense base at Manus
island in the Bismarck archipel
ago.
Dutch engineers contiuued re
claiming Ussel Meer, formerly
the Zuider Zee, closing the
dikes on me third of five major
areas to be taken back from the
ocean. The course of the Hud
son river was altered by a titan
ium mining project far back in
its headwaters in the Adiron
dacks, near Tahawus, N. Y.
Canada and the United States
jointly set about face-lifting Ni
agara " Falls, smoothing the
somewhat jagged lip and build
ing a series of control gates a
mile upstream to help regulate
the flow.
Hard Rock, High Steel -
Hard rock men and sandhoes
drove tunnels in .many lands. An
American firm bored New
Zealand's Rimutaka tunnel 5
miles through the mountains
above Wellington, making it the
longest traffic1 tunnel in the
southern hemisphere (longest in
the world is the 12 -mile
Simplon tunnel in the Alps). "
Japanese engineers after 18
years finished digging the sec
ond undersea tunnel between
the main island of Honshu and
the southern island of Kyushu.
Multi-Million
Away in Safety Boxes Left
Chicago U.R) A 28-year-
old : hrunttw beautv todav was I
hitting a multi-million dollar
jackpot left by the fabled "mer
chant princess" of State Street.
At the' last counting the love
ly Mrs. Mollie Netcher Bragno
stood as eventual heiress of well
over $12,000,000. . ; . .
But state tax officials sill
weren't through unearthing and
evaluating the piles .of gift-
edged securities stowed away in
safe deposit boxes by Mrs,
Brango's grandmother, the : late
Mrs. Mollie Netcher Newbury.
: Mrs. Bragno aided in : the
counting : because, hi." addition
to being Mrs. Newbury's chief
heir, she is aiso executrix and
trustee of the still growing for
tune. - .
Under the terms of Mrs. New
bury's will, filed the day after
her death last Dec. 12, Mrs
Bragno will immediately inherit
half the estate, valued at about
$6,000,000.
More lo Come
She will inherit the other half
upon the death of Townsend
Netcher of Palm Springs, Calif;
Netcher is Mrs. Newbury's son
and was once married to movie
actress Constance Talmadge.
In addition, Mrs. Bragno will
receive half of a separate estate
left by her grandfather, Charles
Netcher. Her share is expected
to come to $2,150,000.
Mrs. Bragno's wealth stems
from one of the strangest and
most famous alliances in the
history of Chicago business.
. . Her grandmother; then Mollie
Alpiner, was a poor Chicago girl
when she went to ; work as a
clerk in the newly-founded Bos
ton store on Chicago's State
Street in 1883. She rose to be
come the store's chief under
wear buyer, ' then, the story
goes, the store's owner, the bril
liant Charles Netcher, told her
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UVAPORun
The two-mile double-decked
tube will carry motor vehicles
on one level, pedestrians on an
other. In the United States a
contract was let for an express
way tunnel beneath Baltimore
harbor, scheduled for comple
tion by 1958.
Toronto dedicated its new
$60,000,000 subway system.
Moscow closed the last link in
its "Great Circle" subway line,
joining seven , principal rail
road stations and 18 city bor
oughs. ;; Major bridges spanned - the
mouth of Tampa bay on the new
15-mile Sunshine Skyway south
from St. Petersburg, Fla.; leaped
the Merrimack river near New
buryport, Mass.; crossed the
Australia's Snowy Moun
tains Hydroelectric project fin
ished one 3 -mile irrigation
tunnel " and contracted for an
other 14 miles long, surpassing
the 13-mile Alva B. Adams wa
ter tube through the Rockies
in northern Colorado.
Connecticut river between
Springfield and Agawam, Mass.;
joined Georgia and South Car
olina by the new nine-mile Eu
gene Talmadge Memorial bridge
route across the Savannah riv
er; and gave Kansas City anoth
er span across the Missourj riv
er, the new Paseo bridge. The
refurbished Brooklyn bridge re
stored full traffic to six lanes in
place of the old four.
Vancouver, B.C., opened Can
ada's first eight-lane bridge. Two
new bridges crossed the Danube
river between Hungary and
Czechoslovakia and between Ro
mania and Bulgaria.
World Highways Lengthened
Road builders sliced through
mountains and jungles. Among
their feats were the Humming
bird highway . in : British Hon
duras,, and new sections of the
Pan American highway in Chile,
Venezuela and El Salvador. .
Red China's radio reported
that 135 miles of a new road
from Sikiang into Tibet had been
opened to traffic;. Tourists now
can drive to within 75 feet of
the main crater of Vesuvius in
Italy. . Mexico modernized the
mountain-twisted highway to Ac
apulco and finished the 1,500
mile highway between the bor
der at Nogales and Mexico City.
The limited-access Baltimore
Washington parkway opened its
full 30-mile length, . relieving
Dollar Jackpot
"go to the cashier and get your
ume,
Mollie Alpiner started to cry
and asked "What have I done?"
Netcher answered "Nothing
but get your. hat and coat and
we'll get married." '
Netcher died in 1905 and Mol
lie took over. She proved the
equal of State Street's merchant
princess, expanding the Boston
Store's business from $6,000,000
to more than $28,000,000 a year.
The Boston Store is gone now
and Mrs. Netcher died in her
Edgewater Beach hotel apart
ment at the age of 87. Mrs.
Bragno was at her side. .
Estimates Short
When the will was originally
filed for probate,' the best esti
mates were that the estate would
come to something over $1,000,
000. .
The state tax officials didn't
know what was in . store for
them.-
Safe deposit box after safe de
posit box was -opened . in the
vaults of the City National Bank
and Trust Company. Every few
days came a new announcement
of more millions, most of them
in tax-exempt municipal' bonds.
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the overtaxed U. S. Route 1, no
torius "Old Bloody." New York
state dedicated three sections of
its billion-dollar," 427 -. mile
Thruway, bringing it from Buf
falo to within 60 miles, of Man
hattan. Ohio and Indiana worked on
east-west expressways that will
eventually join. When . a four
lane project in Massachusetts is
complete and a new bridge
across the Delaware river links
the New Jersey and Pennsylvan
ia Turnpikes, a motorist will be
able to drive from Boston to
the gates of Chicago with scarce
ly a red light or crossroad, but
many a toll booth en route.
Brooklyn opened the first sec
tion of its Prospect Expressway
and Boston took traffic overhead
on its central skyway. "West Vir
ginia' dedicated an 88-mile turn
pike between Charleston .and
Princeton near the southern bor
der. Track of the Iron Horse
Most major railroad building
in 1954 was in Africa and Asia.
The Sudan and the Gold Coast
laid new lines. Johannesburg,
South Africa, admired its new
modernistic railway station,
which includes a large restaur
ant on stilts over a garden and
an 80-car blass garage.
The Shah of Iran opened a
new 95-mile rail link between
Tabriz and Mianeh. Sources both
in and out of Russia reported ex
tensive rail construction in Si
beria. One 400-mile line connect
ed the trans-Siberian railroad
with Ust Kut and the Lena river
region to the north. Another
through Inner Mongolia short
ened by 600 miles the rail dis
tance between Moscow and
Peiping.
Airfields large enough for jet
transports opened at Khartoum
in the Sudan and at Dar es Sal
aam, capital of Tanganyika.
Wichita, Kans., dedicated a new
$10,000,000 municipal airport to
replace a field taken over by
the Air Force.
In Brussels, Beirut, - Mexico
City, Panama City and San
Francisco, gleamirfg new airport
terminals were opened to use.
Chicago, on the other hand,
went - underground. Beneath
Grant park in the congested
loop area, just off Michigan av
enue, motorists now can leave
up to 2,350 cars in the world's
largest subterranean garage. "
Stowed
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.In addition "there were"jewels;
including an $8000 diamond-
studded stomacher, and personal
checking accounts ranging up to
more than $100,000 in other Chi
cago banks. ...
- Mrs.' Bragno, who wears her
dark, heavy hair at shoulder
length, was trying to live up to
her grandmother's reputation as
a businesswoman today. ,
Used To Scold Her
She told how Mrs. Newbury
used to scold her as a girl when
she spent too much money on
expensive dresses.
"She - was a . matriarch al
ways tried to teach us the value
of a dollar," Mrs. Bragno said.
The heiress was educated
abroad and was married in 1947
to Edward A. Bragno, president
of a wine company. They live in
an apartment she decorated her
self on Chicago's near north
side.
As usual, Mrs. Bragno. was
on hand yesterday when what
may be the last of Mrs. New
bury's safe : deposit boxes was
opened.
The heiress to millions con
fessed she only had $15 and a
few coins in her purse.
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