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Word: alcoa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...select group of four U.S. aluminum producers-Alcoa, Reynolds Metals, Kaiser and Anaconda-last week was joined by a fifth, the Harvey Machine Co. of Torrance, Calif. President Leo Harvey, who claims to be the biggest independent U.S. aluminum fabricator and has long wanted to produce his own raw material, signed a deal with the Government to build a $65 million, 54,000-ton-a-year aluminum plant at The Dalles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Aluminum's No. 5 | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

...supply of copper grew increasingly short, there was renewed talk of a turn toward aluminum. Reynolds Metals told stockholders that big electrical companies were inquiring about aluminum for electrical wire and that automobile manufacturers were still considering the light metal to replace copper in radiators. Reported an Alcoa official: "We're getting inquiries from a lot of people we've never heard from before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Squeeze in Copper | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

Georgetown University Professor Leonard Emmerglick, once the Justice Department's expert in the Alcoa antitrust case, chimed in. Soon after the Korean war began, ODM decided to add 1,800,000 Ibs. to U.S. capacity, and push total production to 3.2 billion Ibs. by 1955. It gave the Big Three fast tax write-off allowances for new plants and proceeded to buy any new production the companies could not sell in the open market. In return, the Big Three agreed to deliver one-third of the new plant output to independent fabricators. But, charged Emmerglick, they have been failing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Trouble In Aluminum | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...biggest forging press west of the Iron Curtain went into operation in an Aluminum Co. of America plant at Cleve land last week. Built by Mesta Machine Co. and operated by Alcoa under a lease, the giant, 50,000-ton press towers almost five stories in the air, and extends three stories underground. As it started up, along with another 35,000-ton unit (built by United Engineering & Foundry Co.) in the same plant, the Air Force marked the halfway point in its $279 million heavy-press program aimed at cutting costs and speeding production of such aircraft components...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Heavy-Duty Work | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...National d'Art Moderne had been transformed into a gleaming room swimming in diffused light and housing what was unquestionably the hit of the show: a handsome cross section of contemporary U.S. archi-texture. Among the large scale-models and ceiling-high photomurals: Pittsburgh's aluminum-sheathed Alcoa Building, Manhattan's stilt-borne Lever House, Chicago's glass towers by Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright's laboratory for the Johnson Wax Co. in Racine, Wis. Spotlighted in a second gallery, blacked out with velvet draperies, were a host of machine-made objects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Americans in Paris | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

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