Word: bohn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Getting aluminum from alunite is nothing new. Government geologists uncovered its possibilities while exploring Utah's mineral resources in 1911. In 1929-34, Bohn Aluminum & Brass experimented with alunite-aluminum but gave up without putting it to use. Meanwhile, Kal-unite's engineer-president, Frank Eichelberger, started fiddling with alunite. He fiddled for ten years. Last March, when the aluminum shortage became acute, he stopped practicing, sold Harold Ickes on the process...
...along the line. Young Holden, who left Eastman Kodak to handle aluminum and magnesium matters for OPM, admitted to the Truman Committee last month (TIME, May 26) that he had no special knowledge of aluminum, and also refused to give any good reason why expansion plans of Bohn Aluminum & Brass had been blocked...
Prospects were likely to be uglier still for later months, as defense demands overleap aluminum production, were not likely to improve much until 1942-43, when Alcoa, Reynolds Metals Co. and Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corp. get additional new plants into operation...
...impelling needs of defense last week drove the U.S. Government into the aluminum business. Jesse Jones's RFC arranged to put up $250,000,000 for new aluminum plants. They will be owned by the Government, operated by three private companies (Aluminum Co. of America, Reynolds Metals Co., Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corp...
...testify last week. Other testimony: > A young OPM economist, Grenville R. Holden, testified that although he had no special knowledge of aluminum production, he passed on aluminum matters. He had a distinct preference for Alcoa, had a hard time explaining why an offer by Detroit's Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corp. to build new capacity was rejected. > Said the chief Alcoa witness, senior Vice President G. R. Gibbons: "No corporation in the U.S. has . . . done more [than Alcoa] . . . in the way of stepping right up and doing what it could for the defense in expending its own money...