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G IGEBREAKER LAUNCHED BY USSR

MOSCOW

The world’s first atomic icebreaker, the 16,000-ton Lenin was launched last week in Leningrad. Its electric engines, powered by turbogenerators driven by high-pressure steam

raised by a water-cooled nuclear reactor, devel op a pow

22,000 h.p. of the U.S. Glacier,

Some 425 feet long and 85 feet in the beam, the Lenin has a reinforced prow making it capable of smashing through ice many feet thick.

Her fuel consumption of an ounce or two of uranium a day frees so much space for stores that she will be able to re- main, at sea for up.to 400 days.

The crew will be accomo-

pede hs oUt ti] Vol. 16 No. 50

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1957

VANCOUVER, B.C.

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Sty council. Labor's three | aldermanic " civic office, received' sub- ‘ntial suport. Top vote went my am, Jenkins,” who polled New than 22,000, while Paddy : ale and Charles Lamarche ea about two thousand votes with Running neck-and-neck Bef; the labor candidates was a8 Jones, progressive inde- €nt, who polled 20,829. ant CVA candidates, Tom Ww, Wy and Evelyn Cald- 3 €nny Wise) led the, al- fin anic race.. Alsbury is » Vice-president of Van- di Labor Council, but org Not run with labor en- ation, Rdependent Harry Rankin in th 4 remarkable showing —© School board contest, hd More than 54,000 votes, tion han 3,000 short of elec-

lon, PA candidates took the MW seats

tpg nited commercial Sunday Do YAS given clearcut sup- gp, “2d the provincial gov- Ure Ent will: be under pres-

at the January session of

Cana:¢ i ndidates, making a first bid:

Growth of anti-NPA

feeling shown at polls

Vancouver voters turned out in record numbers Wednes- day this week, gave a resounding “Yes” vote for three import-_ me Plebiscites (Five Year Plan, Sunday sports and school by- Ke

W), endorsed fluoridation by a narrow margin, and demon- “tated a turn away from Non-Partisan Association administra- "ton by electing three Civic Voters’ Association candidates to

the legislature to act, on the matter. Vancouver voters en- dorsed Sunday sport two years ago by a small margin.

Fluoridation was approved by a narrow majority, but Victoria has the final say on the matter.

Here is the complete alder- manic picture (six to be el- ected):

Tom Alsbury (CVA) °57,932; Evelyn Caldwell (CVA) 53,- 739: Anna Sprot (NPA) 41,- 583; J. W. Cornett (NPA) 35,- 188; Reg Atherton (NPA) 34,- 154; Frank Baker (NPA) 33,- 818; Charles Balfour (CVA) 33,389; William Wallace (CVA) 29,086; Jack Moffitt (CVA) 28,475; Sam Jenkins (Labor) 22,335; Effie Jones (Ind.) 20,- 829; Nels Beaton (NPA) 20,- 418; Paddy Neale (Labor) 20,- 344; Reg Paxton (CVA) 20,- 282; Charles Lamarche (Labor) 20,174; Everet King (NPA) 19,- 940: Patrick O’Donohue (Ind.) 13,007; Albert Dunn (Ind.) 9,892; Arthur Riley (Ind.) 9,- 819.

dated in one and two-berth cabins, each fitted with sunray ~jamps to compensate for long periods in the polar nights. The Lenin is only one among a large number of Soviet scien- tific and engineering triumphs which hit the headlines. These are backed up by a stream of less spectac- ular achievements regularly repeated, and available to all, in the 1,200 scientific and tec- nical journals published in the Soviet Union.

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The world’s first atom-powered surface ship, launched in Leningrad last week. It can remain at ser for periods up to 400 days. Seamen’s cabins are fit'ed out with sunray lamps to compensate for long periods in the polar nights.

er of 44,000 h.p., compared with the

hitherto the most powerful in the world.

An example of what hap- pens when Soviet experience is ignored was the disclosure by the U.S. National Science Foundation that Several Am- erican industries spent five years and $200,000 on research on a design of electrical cir- cuits only to discover that the work had already been des- cribed in a Soviet scientific journal before the Americans started.

Recently British experts visit- ed the world’s first under- ground gasification power sta- tion. Although it is a small sta- tion with a capacity of 20,000 kilowatts, the coal resources undearneath are sufficient for 70 years and it will give valu- able experience for future larger stations.

The AAT 105 is a new weav-

the 16,000-ton

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ings loom from the Klimov textile engineering works near Moscow. Its high productivity is due to the fact that it works at 240 r.p.m compared with the 180 or 220 r.p.m. of the old models.

The new loom is unequalled in the U.S. or Britain and 10,- 000 of them will be produced next year.

The TE 3 is a new diesel- electric locomotive soon to be on the regular Moscow-Lenin- grad run, while the ET§8 is a machine which produces insu- lated micro-wire thinner than a human hair directly from liquid metal.

Most of these new machines originate from suggestions put forward by workers. Hundreds of thousands of such sugges- tions are adopted every year.

icebreaker Lenin, was

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