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...tree's range is unbelievable. If grows in the tropics, in higher altitudes above 7,000 feet and in practically every European country. Chaney reports that 50 trees lived through the 1949 Alaskan winter during which the earth froze to a depth of four feet. They are said in Finland to have survived a minimum temperature of 50 degrees centigrade...
...cost, $400 million, would make the project the second biggest single investment ever made at one site by U.S. private industry.† It would eventually boost Alcoa's aluminum capacity 60% to 2.1 billion pounds annually, provide year-round employment for 4,000 and create a new Alaskan city...
...north and finished aluminum to market. Alcoa is ready to raise the whole $400 million unaided, provided that 1) Canada will give permission to dam the river and divert the water, and 2) the U.S. will help Alcoa get title to the 20,000 acres of Alaskan land needed for the site (present homesteading laws limit one Alaskan purchase to 160 acres). The plan has already won the informal backing of the U.S. Defense Department. Moreover, Alcoa, a onetime monopoly which now has plenty of competition and only 50% of total U.S. capacity, doesn't think trustbusters could legally...
Early this month, with the help of a Seattle heart specialist, Dr. Robert L. King, the adventurous physician got his electrocardiogram. Back again in Boston last week, 66-year-old Dr. White explained that the Alaskan expedition was only a beginning. Now that the equipment has been tested, he wants to try it on even larger whales...
...Navy, said Admiral Giffen, was convinced by now that its Alaskan battle force had steamed in under a high-riding layer of warm air that acted as a kind of electronic ceiling. Radar pulses bounced off the "inversion" layer and echoed back from the Amchitka mountains, more than 100 miles away. A similar temperature inversion was hovering over the capital when the saucers flew in. Admiral Giffen thought that atmospheric conditions were still the best explanation for the ghostly targets...