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...only miscalculated needs and sources but refused to aid Reynolds Metals Co. to build capacity for 120,000,000 lb., left that job to RFC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Famine in Aluminum | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...answer came from OPM. Then Knudsenhillman sent to Secretary Stimson a recommendation for eight new plants to lift production 600,000,000 lb. a year. In Arkansas, Washington, New York, Alabama, California, North Carolina RFC will finance them: they are to be privately operated-by what companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Famine in Aluminum | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...after Calvin Coolidge signed the bill authorizing Boulder Dam in 1928, eleven coastal cities (later 13) set up the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. They voted a $220,000,000 bond issue, and in 1932 got RFC to help them sell the bonds. With a PWA loan, they started work on the aqueduct, which runs from Parker Dam, 155 miles south of Boulder Dam, to Lake Mathews, near Riverside. With the world's deepest dam foundation (233 feet under the river bed), Parker Dam stores water for the whole District system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: River in the Desert | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

...State Department, or by the U.S. Export Control Administration, where a staff of 350 has long been mapping a preclusive buying campaign under Brigadier General Russell L. Maxwell. No American claimed credit. But it represented some smooth, discreet work on the part of the State Department, RFC, and the No. 1 needler for economic warfare, Leon Henderson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Economic Warfare in Brazil | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

...against $33 by the Hall process. But the alunite process yields one-half ton of sulfate potash worth $18.12 and one-third ton sulfuric acid worth $6, as byproducts. Moreover, alunite-aluminum uses less electricity than Hall-produced aluminum. Kalunite hopes to borrow up to $16,000,000 from RFC to build two plants in Marysvale, Utah, perhaps a third in Washington's White River Valley. Both sites are near supplies of alunite ore, also not too far from titanic Grand Coulee, which could supply the juice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALUMINUM: Competition for Bauxite | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

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