Word: alcoa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Local authorities should accept some new forms of government, or at least governmental cooperation, in order to put an end to the zoning and planning warfare by which suburbs fight to remain enclaves for the well-to-do. As Alcoa Chairman Fritz Close said last week in San Francisco: "Enabling the poor to find housing in the suburbs, where the jobs are, is probably the biggest single step this country could take toward solving its social problems...
...East St. Louis's cheap labor sources but contribute nothing to its support. A magnet for Northbound Negroes ever since World War II, the city is overburdened with unskilled workers whose families have strained the welfare system and glutted the schools. When large plants like Swift, Armour and Alcoa pulled out for better locations, they left behind a seething, sickened slum...
...America was the only major member of its industry to report earnings gains for both the second quarter and the first half. Second-ranked Reynolds Metals' quarterly profits fell 21%, while Kaiser Aluminum's were down to 85? per share, from 95? a year ago. Alcoa's second-quarter profits, however, rose 7% to $28.8 million ($1.31 per share) from $27 million ($1.23 per share...
...HONESTY. Right away, it has to be admitted that architecture, like life, tolerates contradictory kinds of honesty. Today architects like to show how buildings stand by calling attention to the structural system. In San Francisco's Alcoa building, the beautifully proportioned glass box hangs within a strong steel cage of vertical and diagonal steel beams. It thus avoids that hallmark of cheap building, a forest of interior columns. In the Gulf Life tower in Jacksonville, the architects went a step further; they expressed engineering stress lines by thickening concrete beams where they meet columns, narrowing them where there is less...
...pared from window frames (the answer saved Shell $200,000 in Houston). The driving force in the San Francisco office is Charles Bassett, 46, a touseled six-footer who came to S.O.M. from the office of the late Eero Saarinen. He ranges widely in styles, designed the Alcoa building, the Mauna Kea Hotel in Hawaii, and the bare-boned Oakland-Alameda County stadium, which he boasts is a beauty "with no rouge on her cheeks...