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This section offers news briefs on U.S. production as of March 7, 1953 including a scintillation unit used in detecting uranium and which is claimed to be more reliable than a Geiger counter, Air Force grant of approval for the Aircraft Gas Turbine Division of General Electric Co. to strip-test only one out of ten J-47 jet engines, and the lifting of security wraps on the recoverable drone Ryan Q-2 Firebee, capable of near-sonic speed and tested at Holloman Air Development Center, New Mexico.