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DEFENSE DIGEST 1few rnmSvp of mohiShetioR mm and trends Northwest power limitation orders issued lost October hove been revoked by De fense Electric Power Administration. This move recognizes the end of crucial water-shortage conditions for the winter of 1952--53. In January, two provisions of the orders were suspended: a ban on use of interruptible power, and a 10% cut in use of firm power by large customers (over 8000 kwhr per week). Successor to CMP is DMS, which is Washingtonese for Defense Materials System. . Now setup should take effect July 1, when Controlled Materials Plan expires. Unlike CMP, under which steel, copper and aluminum were allocated to all uaer8, DMS covers only defense uses. Allotments will be mode to manufacturers and builders on direct Defense Dept, or Atomic Energy Commission contracts. These prime contractors will also get preference ratings to buy needed tools and components, conipass priorities along to subcontractors and suppliers. Producers of steel, copper and aluminum will set aside specific tonnages for defense-rated users. Probable Industrywide setasides for third quarter, steel 15%, copper 25%, aluminum 30%. Defense-supporting projects Will also receive priorities, but Sparingly. AEC or the Pentagon will have to certify. An eleettic utility plant to power an atomic pro ject, for example, would probably get a rating, others probably wouldn't. Nontated manufacturers and builders can purchase steel, copper and aluminum In the open market, to the extent of their ability. Molybdenum alloys for high-pressure high-temperature service are still restricted in molybdenum content, but allowable limits have been upped. For corrosion-ero sion conditions. National Production Authority will consider exceptions. Engineer shortage gets no better. Number of engineers needed in relation to production workers keeps rising os Industry gets more complex: it now takes close to 200 engineers per 10,000 workers. This Is up from obout 115 in 1940. And number of engineering graduates will decline lo an estimated 17.000 in 1954, before storting to rise. Something over 25,000 graduates are expected In 1958. These figures compare with annual need for some 30,000 new engineers. Plenty of copper seems to be (he word as some favorable developments in supply put this oncfr-tlght metal into a buyers* market. There's been lots of confusion, but all signs now point lo lower prices when the situation stabilizes. . Two reasons for better supply: Lifting price lid on foreign copper while European demand was down stimulated imports. The end of domestic price con trols brought scrap out of hiding. New mobilization Strategy seems to be in the making, but it's still hard to tell what Its final shape will be. We've boon spreading defense work as far as possi ble to gear Industry for a quick shift to big production if all-out war cornea. This admittedly runs up costs; new defense boss Wilson thinks it wasteful. His program might run like this: Cancel out some high-cost producers before (heir contracts ore completed. Allow most contractors to go ahead and fill their orders. Restrict new contracts to efficient producers. This promises more arms pet dollar spent but narrows the production "base." 14* PUNT OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE SECTION f A True Power Station Motor lgside*air-dijicharge motor ven; rion" proved impractical for large |r.jfed pump service, we reversed tiigftow to expel the warm ventilntj lijrjiigh over the pump. This pre^recirculation of aischargo air . . . ' close parallel spacing of motors |rutly improves personnel comfort, iaaddition lo vontilalion changes, this * 4rn.cubical boiler feed pump motor !f operates the latest advances in * jtnp, insulation, rotor, and stator curate bearing lineup. Both endshield > Vi'U's built lo serve you with the halves are sturdy ribqed castings. ground reliability the vital power For more information contact your by requires. nearest G.E. Apparatus Soles Office or of ihe features of the C-B drip- write for Bullotin CEA-5813 to General ^ ^'Boiler Feed Pump Motor which Electric Co., Section 753-3, Schenectady > rjtt a true power station motor from 5, N. Y. * ^bottom arc: '] ilAMLINED ROTOR construction Conventional motor (top) expels heated dls*. charge air into the aisle--C-E Boiler Feed y |S*U "siren", 'effect--built-in de Pump motor exhausta air high over the pump. ~ %AvV /ok can.f/itrf yoai am/vi A .GENERAL ELECTRIC