Word: alcan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trend to modules was started by Canada's Alcan Design Homes, which brought out a line of completely furnished aluminum-clad houses priced from $8,500 to $12,500, not including the lot and foundation. Indiana-based National Homes, one of the biggest manufacturers of prefabricated houses, opened its first modular plant last January. In a major industrial counterattack, National has also moved into mobile-home construction...
...ranking British golf pro, took a slow boat to Houston last year for the Ryder Cup matches rather than fly, thereby eliminating himself from several tournaments that took place while he was at sea, including the one with the richest first prize of all, the $55,000 Alcan. Singer Jack Landron passed up a free junket to Finland, which he won on TV's Dating Game, because he refused to fly. While designing the capital city of Brasilia, Architect Oscar Niemeyer regularly drove the 575 miles overland from Rio de Janeiro rather than take a1½-hour flight...
...ultimate consumer might be surprised to learn that the company is based not in Utah but on San Francis co's California Street. He might also be surprised to know that Utah Construction & Mining helped build the Hoover and Bonneville dams and the Alcan Highway, and last year completed $1.4 billion worth of work on the ambitious new San Francisco Bay Area rapid-transit system. Utah's revenues of $1 13.3 million and earnings of $16,543,000 last year resulted from such diverse and far-flung sources as real estate sales on California's Monterey Peninsula...
Gruening protested that the appointment ought to go to an Alaskan, but once on the ground he quickly became one himself. He worked tirelessly to make his territory a state, began by promoting the famed Alcan Highway, outlawing discrimination against natives (Eskimos, Indians and Aleuts), starting to collect taxes from companies doing business in the territory. After he retired from the governorship in 1953, he urged statehood in a 600-page book (The State of Alaska) and dozens of magazine articles...
...years from now the new plants, plus the increased smelting capacity of Alcan Aluminium Ltd., should be able to put 348,000 short tons of ingots on the market annually, but some analysts are predicting an aluminum glut before then. Sir Val Duncan, chairman of Rio Tinto, disagrees. "If you look at it globally, that must be nonsense," he says...