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Henry J. Kaiser realized another dream last week. At Fontana, Calif., 45 miles east of Los Angeles in the heart of the wine and walnut belt, he watched his wife pull a switch and blow in his new 1,200-ton blast furnace, named in her honor "the Bess." The blowing in of the pig-iron furnace, just eight months after Henry Kaiser broke ground for her where a pig-breeding farm had once flourished, meant that the West Coast for the first time in its history had a fully integrated steel plant...
...Kaiser had barely seen his steel dream fulfilled before he was dreaming new dreams. At his star-spangled blowing-in ceremony he told his guests that Fontana was still "just a seed": he wants to surround his steel mill with synthetic rubber plants, plastics production, etc. to round out a Kaiser empire that already embraces cement, magnesium, shipbuilding...
...John Steinbeck's Mexican documentary film, The Forgotten Village, was banned as "indecent" by New York's State Board of Censors. It contains childbirth sequences. ∙ ∙ Mae Murray, suing Billy Ros& for $150,000 for invasion of privacy, lost a plea to prohibit Georges Fontana and Mitzi Haynes from doing the Merry Widow Waltz at Rose's Manhattan nightclub. Her version of it with John Gilbert re-popularized the dance 16 years...
Stung by the Senate's remarks on its (and Alcoa's) slowness in meeting the aluminum shortage (TIME, July 7), OPM also announced that TVA and Alcoa had agreed on construction of 100,000 kw. of hydro capacity at Fontana, N.C., ending a long squabble over who would pay for the project. (TVA grabbed the check, subject to getting funds from Congress...
...Alcoa refused to build a power plant at Fontana (N.C.) on the ground that, under the license prescrlbed by the Water Power Act of 1920, it would risk recapture (with pay) of a $45,000,000 investment after 50 years...