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...content with cracking the West Coast cement market and invading the never-before-invaded magnesium industry (TIME, March 3), he applied to OPM last week for a certificate of necessity to build $150,000,000 worth of steel mills in the West. His plans include blast furnaces in Utah for Rocky Mountain coal and ore; electric furnaces near Bonneville Dam to use cheap Government power to convert the Utah pig and scrap iron into high-grade steel; a plant in Southern California to use electricity and natural gas (first time on a commercial scale) to smelt local ore; a plate...
...Existing steel companies say it would cost more to make steel on the Coast than to ship it from Chicago. But Kaiser thinks his setup, with no obsolete equipment to carry and with cheap gas and power, could actually make a profit at reduced prices just as his cement plant has cleaned up on bargain rates...
...Germans' weakest point on the Bulgarian-Greek Front was supply-only one single-track railway. The R.A.F. and the Greek and Yugoslav Air Forces concentrated on supply lines, and daring Yugoslav engineers braved air attacks to impede traffic by sinking four cement-laden barges in the Danube, at the Iron Gate, where the channel is very narrow...
...From paper mills, cement plants, Army camps Atlantic Coast Line gets many new tons of industrial freight. February gross was $5,629,000, 15% over 1940, best since 1931. But net operating income jumped...
Armchair constructors had fancifully assumed that all the camps would be built on good terrain, that weather would be fine, that roads, railways, water supplies and electric power would be ample, that the costs of labor and materials would stay put. As any lay contractor worth his cement could have foretold, practically none of these assumptions held good. Plans were suddenly, sometimes erratically, changed. Congress delayed initial appropriations, so that jobs which might have been done last fall had to be done in wintertime. Unions put the bite on workers for stiff initiation fees, held up some camps until demands...