Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Expanding West Coast shipyards are dependent upon steel plates coming through the Panama Canal and, in the event that the canal was rendered unusable by sabotage, it would hamper shipbuilding and repairs on the West Coast...
...steel company managements, which have nursed along their expanding, profitable West Coast market (where the asking price is generally the sales price), no proposal could be more harebrained. They object that such plants would duplicate existing facilities, that no large deposits of coking coal or iron ore exist on the West Coast to make such an industry logical. The cost of hauling raw materials would, they insist, make West Coast steel more expensive than East Coast steel plus delivery charges...
...spite of such objections, U. S. Army engineers have played with the idea for at least five years, have published a many-volumed report, Available Raw Materials for a Pacific Coast Iron Industry...
...answer is the Columbia River's Bonneville Dam. (But Administrator Paul Raver boasted last week at the White House that demand for Bonneville power is currently twice its output.) Instead of coal (used in blast furnaces for iron-making, in open hearth furnaces for steel), West Coast steel plants would depend on electric furnaces fueled by new Bonneville generators to process iron ore (or scrap) directly into steel. A January 1938 War Department publication noted that stainless and other special electrolitic steels for war purposes are "peculiarly adapted for production in the Pacific Coast low cost power areas...
...total-most of it in the Northwest, stamping ground of the late great Railroad Builder James Jerome Hill, whom he had known and idolized. By 1931 he had welded Western Pacific and others of his holdings together until he controlled two through routes running from Chicago to the Pacific Coast, had built a line connecting their Pacific terminals, Seattle and San Francisco...