Word: alumina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down through penstocks to the turbines. The generators would be in the rock itself, protected from the weather and enemy bombs. The power would be cheap enough (probably 2? per Ib. of aluminum v. 4$ at Alcoa's most recent U.S. facilities) to offset the cost of transporting alumina all the way 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...
More Energy. Houdry's process is quite simple. The catalytic units are arranged in layers in the chimneys, and each unit has 73 porcelain rods coated with a thin film (only .003 inch) of alumina and platinum alloy. This coating is the catalyst, which combines with oxygen in the atmosphere to burn up noxious wastes, and in so doing generates still greater heat...
...aside 50% of all profits for 20 years, to repay the loan.) Within two years, if his plans hit no snag, Harvey hopes to be turning out 108 million Ibs. of aluminum a year (7% of U.S. production) at Kalispell, have his own plant at Everett, Wash., to make alumina (aluminum oxide), and to have his own $3,000,000 fleet of ore boats to bring in bauxite from Dutch Guiana...
Everywhere the Japanese scattered sugar mills, pineapple canneries and factories to produce textiles, chemicals, paper and industrial alcohol. At Kaohsiung and Hualien they built plants which produced about 10% of the Japanese Empire's alumina and aluminum. By the beginning of World War II, Formosa was exporting more than Turkey or Yugoslavia, returning a yearly net profit of $100 million to Japanese investors and the Japanese government, had an export balance in trade with both China and Japan...