If ever there ws an installment of George Roussos General Electric informational series that may reveal some assistance from Mort Meskin, it's this one. But I still have my doubts. So many people have stated that Meskin helped Roussos out on some of these books, that it has become a truth on it's own. But even here I can see only mininal traces of Meksin's style. And what I do see, couold just as well be Roussos mimicking Meskin's style - something he got better and better at as the fifties went on. Great book, though - and a prime example of it's genre.
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Beautifully draw! The page rate must have been high for these. By the way, I found the ruins of the Oak Ridge U-235 plant Roussos drew on page ll on Google Maps. This plant cost $512 million to build in 1942, or $7 billion dollars in 2017 dollars! https://goo.gl/maps/KEpBmpGG8cT2
Did you take pictures?
this website has some interesting photos: http://k-25virtualmuseum.org/
And the Atomic Plane mentioned on page 14 was a real thing...General Electric developed it in 1955-1960 but it was very dirty and essentially spewed radioactivity as it flew as well as exposed the pilot to very high levels of radioactivity.
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