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...supply power for a new aluminum smelter, M-K had dammed a river to form a 120-mile-long reservoir, hollowed out a mountain to enclose a huge powerhouse five city blocks long, and drilled a ten-mile tunnel to carry the water to the turbines. At ultimate capacity, Alcan's powerhouse would be able to produce 1,671,000 kw., 34% more than Hoover Dam, enough electricity to match the combined output of such U.S. giants as Shasta, Bonneville and Wilson Dams...
...mammoth Alcan project is a prime example of the Morrison method. When the preliminary survey work was done in February 1951, MK's No. 2 man, Jack Bonny, called a big, hearty Swede named Ole Strandberg who was vacationing in Honolulu. "Come on back," said Bonny. "We have a job for you-some dams and tunnels-the kind of stuff you like." Some "dams and tunnels," recalls Strandberg, turned out to be "a ten-mile tunnel, a 50-mile transmission line, the biggest underground powerhouse ever built...
...southern district court to cancel a contract Alcoa made last May with Aluminium Ltd. of Canada, under which Alcoa would buy 600,000 tons of aluminum over the next six years. The contract, argued Brownell, not only violated a 1950 court decision which severed all connection between Alcoa and Alcan, but it would keep new companies from going into the aluminum business because they could not hope to meet Alcan's low price...
Brownell's argument was none too solid. Further expansion of U.S. aluminum production had bogged down long before the Alcoa-Alcan deal. It raised a basic question: Must the U.S. have more competition in the aluminum industry even if it means more expensive aluminum...
...lending a hand across the border, Aluminium Ltd. also helped itself, now has an assured market for the output of its Alcan subsidiary's huge $550 million Kitimat plant in northern British Columbia, slated to start production next year. In view of the new orders, Aluminium Ltd. has already authorized additional work at Kitimat that will double its smelting facilities...