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...company a loan to build two new plants (now nearly completed) which will have a capacity of 60,000 tons of primary aluminum per year and give Alcoa its first substantial competition. He also told how he arranged to buy Government power from TVA in Alabama and Bonneville Dam on the Pacific Coast (as Alcoa has now done). Alabama's Senator Lister Hill then asked: ". . . Did you get any cooperation from the Defense Commission...
...hills, can even see the snouts of guns against the sky. Any Japanese or German strategist, studying maps of the Canal, knows that the guns are there to guard some of the most valuable military targets in the world: the locks in the Canal itself, and great earthen Gatun Dam (105 ft. above sea level and 400 ft. thick at the water level), where a break would empty the lake, dry up and close the Canal...
...steel companies do not wish to expand their capacity, the fabulous Henry J. Kaiser of Boulder Dam fame would like to do the expanding for them...
...never-before-invaded magnesium industry (TIME, March 3), he applied to OPM last week for a certificate of necessity to build $150,000,000 worth of steel mills in the West. His plans include blast furnaces in Utah for Rocky Mountain coal and ore; electric furnaces near Bonneville Dam to use cheap Government power to convert the Utah pig and scrap iron into high-grade steel; a plant in Southern California to use electricity and natural gas (first time on a commercial scale) to smelt local ore; a plate mill near Los Angeles. He thinks he could complete this setup...
Favorite shipbuilding technique of the Norsemen was to dam the water out of a fjord, build the ship on the ground, float her off by breaking the dam and letting the sea back in. Last week Todd-Bath Iron Shipbuilding Corp. (South Portland, Me.) was using this old Viking trick and Maine's nine-foot tides to speed construction on 30 $1,600,000 pre-fabricated freighters for Britain. Having no fjords, Todd-Bath steam-shoveled a basin about five feet below water. At launching time (around May 1) the incoming tide bubbling through opened gates will gently float...