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...Aluminum Co. of Canada launched its $550 million Kitimat project in British Columbia, the biggest single industrial enterprise in the country. Work moved at a 24-hour-a-day pace on a ten-mile water tunnel through the Rockies, a 280-foot power dam, and the world's biggest aluminum mill to open in 1954. ¶ Iron Ore Co. of Canada got well under way on 360 miles of track through the wilderness of northern Quebec to its $200 million iron ore project in Ungava. ¶ A record $250 million was invested in exploration and development of Alberta...
...like him because he speaks Spanish and because his wife is pretty. The O'Dwyers are enormously popular, entertain widely, and get around. He has a nice instinct for handling prideful Mexicans and a politician's feel for public relations. During an inspection trip to the Falcon Dam on the Rio Grande, a joint project of both nations, O'Dwyer said only: "One Falcon Dam is worth 1,000 speeches"-and was quoted all over Mexico. As a broad-minded politician, he gets on well with Mexico's broad-minded politicians. When O'Dwyer...
...aluminum for its fabricating subsidiaries. Would Anaconda like to buy control of the subsidiary Harvey had set up in Montana for his aluminum project? Anaconda would; it bought 95% of Harvey's subsidiary and got Harvey's contract for electric power from the new Hungry Horse Dam. Harvey, in turn, was assured of a good chunk of the new aluminum produced for his own fabricating plants...
...Horse project." Fleischmann said he approved the Anaconda-Harvey deal because the plan for an enlarged Air Force (143 wings) made the need for aluminum urgent, and the Anaconda plant should be producing at the rate of 72,000 tons a year by 1953, soon after the Hungry Horse Dam is fully completed. Feischmann could not see any threat of monopoly; the new plant, said he, would produce less than 4% of all U.S. aluminum, tend to increase competition, not reduce...
...realized for the first time what Negro segregation meant. My most disappointing experience was the sudden departure of one of the legislators who sponsored the FEPC bill. He had been warned that if he voted for the bill, his state would not get allocation of funds for an essential dam. He was a thousand miles away on the day when the bill was taken...