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DEFENSE DIGEST Your roundup of mobilization news and trends attesting power ml National Production Authority is now a permanent Commerce Dept agcncy.Business executives, on loon for d^month rotation periods, will run its 20 main industry divisions. Regular industry advisory committees are being set up. A ptoducUon-controls division will run the Defense Materials System, buccessor to the Controlled Materials Plan (June Digest). It will issue directives to the mills, based on allotments certified by Defense Dept and Atomic Energy Com mission and approved by Office of Defense Mobilization, Uranium supply Is no longer the limiting factor it was, says Gordon Dean, retiring chair man,- Atomic Energy Commission. New deposits have been discovered in this country, Canada, Australia and elsewhere. New processes make it possible to tap low-grade sources in South Africa, phosphate regions of U.S. With successful "breeding" of atomic fuel, these developments assure enough uranium to support a large-scale atomic-energy Industry for generations. Coal-bargaining time is September. John L Lewis is expected to ask for at least 10c- an-hour raise for his miners. Along with it, he is likely to demand a higher welfare- \ fund royalty - up from the current 40c pier ton. Price hikes on crude oil and some products have been eyed by Congress, but .any backing down will come from economic pressure - heavy stocks and competi tion from natural gas, plus effects of record breaking imports of foreign oil. Future of TVA may be settled next year. Water-power possibilities in the ares ore just about fully developed. If Congress finally decides to deny the big steam-plant program needed to firm up the system and meet growing Industrial demands. TVA will have to buy power from adjacent private companies. New oil-storage wrinkle is use of abandoned slate pits. Esso Standard has been sur veying possibilities, has tentatively selected a Pennsylvania site that would handle aummjr storage of 3-mlllion bbl of distillate fuel. Such storage would help level peaks and valleys of seasonal operation, also offers a good bet for safe stockpiling against national-defense needs. Slate quarries get the nod because inert slate offers no contamination prob lems, pits are generally rectongular with vertical sides. Some form of cover, .possibly a floating roof, would protect against sunlight, dust, animal life. Eisenhower's choice for new head of AEC, Lewis L Strauss, has a record of interest in power-reactor research and development. His appointment is regarded as improvingthe prospects for industrial production of atomic energy. Broad-base mobilization, subject of recent debate, has been reaffirmed by Defense Mobilization Director Flemming. New policy statement calls for (1) standby pro duction lines without actual volume production of anything easy to make when needed (2) expanded capacity for some items thot ore hard to produce and require long lead time. A~ survey of all defense plants will see if some production can be shifted lo cut costs. Tools of closed plants would be kept in place or stored.Budget still Includes $500 million for stockpiling critical machine tools. POWEI AUGUST ' _ lyyestinghouie Axiflo fans did S&ncfc Bach draws 12.000 cubic feel g^wFtthrough the generators every J^Sj^icking up the excess heat. Then wvi&ll'jpipcd through concrete ducts Hack'* which line both Vn&Src-tho building. Alcoa has just expanded this They have installed 74 One day--today or in the near future --you may have a problem that involves putting atr to work. When you do', re member that Westinghouse has the most complete air conditioning, air cleaning and air handling line in the industry. See the new Catalog 600. it contains 60 fact-filled pages on products, uses, and helpful data. To get your free copy, justcallyourlocal WestinghouseSlurtevont office. Or. write to Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Sturtcvant Division, Hyde Park, Boston 36, Moss. Cootlng-air drawn through.the engine fencrotors pick* up (he Inlente heat, then safely exhausts it through individual stacks. CAN BE SURE...IF it'slAfestinghouse JIM AIR HANDLING 'AUOUST 1935