Word: fontana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry J. Kaiser's chief worries as a steelmaker have been over iron ore for his plant at Fontana, Calif. This week Kaiser felt that these worries were ended. After more than two years of haggling he had acquired mining rights to famed Eagle Mountain, best source of ore in the West...
Kaiser has been hauling most of his ore 185 miles from low-grade diggings at Kelso, Calif., the rest 500 miles from Cedar City, Utah. Eagle Mountain, rising naked on the edge of the Mojave Desert, is only 153 miles from Fontana, is rich enough to supply Kaiser with low-cost, high-grade ore for at least 50 years...
...cash comes from Kaiser's shipbuilding and Fontana earnings, with an O.K. from the Reconstruction Finance Corp. RFC figured that better earning prospects for Fontana meant a better prospect for repayment of the $115 million RFC loan...
...stubborn in refusing to compromise for the President's proposal and thus avert a strike? One industrialist thought so. Big, bustling Henry Kaiser rushed to the White House with Phil Murray, emerged to announce that he had signed with the Steelworkers at 18½? for his plant at Fontana, Calif, (which employs only 3,000 men and enjoys a favorable price differential of $12 a ton). Cried Big Henry...
...virtually completed its flood control and navigation projects in 1945. It closed the mile-and-a-half-long Kentucky Dam near the mouth of the Tennessee River and 480-ft.-high Fontana Dam on he Little Tennessee. With these and the 24 other dams in the system, TVA now has a navigation channel on the Tennessee some 650 miles long; and 13,000,000 acre-feet of water storage space for flood control, navigation and power...