Word: alcoa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alcoa Hour (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). Sister, starring Vincent Price, Cathleen Nesbitt, Gladys Cooper...
...Kaiser Industries' vast expansion under Henry J. and his son, President Edgar F. Kaiser, 47. Edgar is also directing a $33 million expansion for Permanente Cement and a $500 million expansion for Kaiser Aluminum which will push it up to second place in the industry, 28% behind Alcoa...
...Alcoa Hour made history by discovering a new way of treating the classic TV western story-Writer Alvin Sapinsley put it in blank verse. Even more surprising: it worked. Franchot Tone, Lee Grant and Christopher Plummer played the three tragic figures who end as corpses on a dusty street, while Boris Karloff leaned confidentially into the camera as a one-man Greek chorus to give poetic expression to the eternal verities of life, death, and man's irreparable foolishness...
...shortage-ridden aluminum industry there was the promise that supply would catch up with demand. The Aluminum Co. of America unveiled plans for a huge, $80 million smelting plant near Evansville, Ind., to turn out 150,000 tons annually, increase Alcoa's primary capacity 33% to 942,500 tons a year in 1958. When the plant goes into operation in the fall of 1957, the industry will have to expand old markets, find new ones to keep growing. But the job should not be too difficult. In autos alone the potential is enormous. Said Alcoa President I. W. Wilson...
Before building a new smelting plant that subsequently trebled the 2,000 population of Rockdale, Texas, Alcoa in 1953 paid an estimated $30,000 advance taxes to finance new road and school construction. To pave the way for a new jet test flight center in Palmdale, Calif., Lockheed Aircraft Corp. hired a professional city manager, who spent two years helping city officials plan for expansion, lured three other aircraft companies to Palmdale...