Word: dam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brown brothers started in the construction business (Colorado River Mansfield Dam and Corpus Christi Naval Air Station). In mid-1941 came a lucky accident: the Browns heard that a small Houston shipyard was going to lose its subchaser contract because of money troubles. They asked for the job and got it. Within six months the Browns bought and cleared a 156-acre tract, built a small shipyard of secondhand materials, rounded up a working force, purchased supplies and parts and launched the first subchaser. The Navy promptly gave the Browns more subchaser orders plus a contract for a medium-sized...
...vast wilderness beyond the rocky Laurentian hills a giant of World War II is rising to harness the power of Canada's white waters for the production of aluminum. Men have been toiling in these wooded hills, in rain and snow and ice, to build a dam which will rank among the world's greatest power developments...
...turbines at the Canadian dam will generate 1,020,000 horsepower, about 25% more than the output of Russia's huge Dnieprostroy dam, which was destroyed before the Germans came. In the U.S., Grand Coulee and Boulder will each ultimately generate around twice as much power, but Canada's mammoth (nameless for military reasons) outstrips the current capacity of both of them. And it was completed in two and a half years, half the time it took to get Boulder into production...
...dam is part of a great expansion planned for Canada's aluminum industry. First steps in this direction were taken two years ago in the aluminum city of Arvida, near Lake St. John. Today-with the aid of U.S. as well as Canadian capital -the aluminum industry in Canada has expanded sevenfold over its pre-war capacity, supplies fully 40% of the entire Allied demand. Around the new dam-which may or may not be near Arvida-the biggest aluminum plant in the world is growing up to turn out the material for United Nations planes...
...businessman of 1942, not only because of his immense energy and drive but because he applied them to the most critical of all problems-the supply of shipping. Kaiser had never built a ship up to the time that Hitler invaded Poland. He had built highways, helped build Boulder Dam, and had learned, in his own phrase, to handle "the heavy materials." Kaiser's ability to handle heavy materials allowed him to cut the time for delivering a Liberty ship from an initial 197 days to an average of under 40 days in his Portland yards, as against...