Word: alcoa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Truman: . . . This has all the earmarks of a maneuver by OPM to turn over full control of the aluminum industry to Alcoa...
Walsh: [Chadwick] was accompanied by T. D. Jollie, chief engineer for Alcoa. . . . They drove by twice, but nobody got out and looked over the site. Later Chadwick called and said that Jollie declared it would...
This week Engineer Jollie said he had indeed looked at the Kalunite site with Engineer Chadwick. Reason: OPM had asked Alcoa to build the plant for Olin. Mr. Jollie vetoed Mr. Eichelberger's site because it was on tidal land...
...Eichelberger insisted that the site was fine for alunite-aluminum production, was not feasible if bauxite-aluminum production (whose carbon furnaces require deep pits) was planned. The fact that Alcoa was to build his plant was news to him. If OPM was not giving him the runaround, it was certainly giving him the silent treatment...
...make 1,400,000,000 lb. of aluminum a year, the nation will need 2,800,000,000 lb. of alumina (in addition to large amounts used raw by chemical and abrasives industries). With Alcoa's new alumina plant, U.S. capacity will be something over 2,000,000,000 lb. a year. About to be signed with Reynolds is a contract for another alumina plant which will add 200,000,000 lb. To make up part of the remaining alumina deficit, OPM recommended last week that still another 600,000,000 lb. of Government-owned capacity be added...