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...partial operation for some months. Shipyards at Nikolaev on the Bug River are probably building much-needed vessels for Germany's merchant fleet plying between Rumanian ports and the threatened Crimea. The Germans are taking iron from mines at Krivoi Rog, manganese from Nikopol. The great Dnieper power dam-pride of prewar Russia-was partly wrecked just before the Red Army retreated across the Dnieper in September 1941, but in late 1942 the Germans were well along with repairs. At least in the richest part...
Editor Purdy's first Victory, printed mainly to induce Congress to appropriate enough money to finance it, was a handsome 80-page job printed on heavy slick paper. After excellent air views of New York City and Boulder Dam, a fine shot of a tree-shaded, U.S. residential street and a picture of an Indiana dirt road complete with rugged farmer, there were full-page color photos of Franklin Roosevelt (with a story about him) and Henry Wallace (with an article by him). Other features: a three-page color spread of Marines training for combat; a double-truck photo...
...Brown brothers started in the construction business (Colorado River Mansfield Dam and Corpus Christi Naval Air Station). In mid-1941 came a lucky accident: the Browns heard that a small Houston shipyard was going to lose its subchaser contract because of money troubles. They asked for the job and got it. Within six months the Browns bought and cleared a 156-acre tract, built a small shipyard of secondhand materials, rounded up a working force, purchased supplies and parts and launched the first subchaser. The Navy promptly gave the Browns more subchaser orders plus a contract for a medium-sized...
...turbines at the Canadian dam will generate 1,020,000 horsepower, about 25% more than the output of Russia's huge Dnieprostroy dam, which was destroyed before the Germans came. In the U.S., Grand Coulee and Boulder will each ultimately generate around twice as much power, but Canada's mammoth (nameless for military reasons) outstrips the current capacity of both of them. And it was completed in two and a half years, half the time it took to get Boulder into production...
...dam is part of a great expansion planned for Canada's aluminum industry. First steps in this direction were taken two years ago in the aluminum city of Arvida, near Lake St. John. Today-with the aid of U.S. as well as Canadian capital -the aluminum industry in Canada has expanded sevenfold over its pre-war capacity, supplies fully 40% of the entire Allied demand. Around the new dam-which may or may not be near Arvida-the biggest aluminum plant in the world is growing up to turn out the material for United Nations planes...