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...million Intalco plant, which will be the third biggest aluminum-producing plant in the world when its three potlines are on stream. The owners of Intalco- American Metal Climax, Howmet and France's Pechiney Co.-were attracted by cheap, abundant power from the Bonneville grid, cheap land, sheltered deep water and fine living for employees...
Friday, however, the winches failed to stop the lower portion of the act. It carried the top part into the lighting grid 52 feet above the stage...
...Russians have also agreed to build a $20 million plant to turn out heavy boilers, bridge girders and cranes. Czechoslovakia has promised a $15 million precision-tool factory. On a smaller scale, the U.S. Government last week agreed to provide $245,000 for the planning of a nationwide power grid to integrate the electricity that seven new hydroelectric dams will provide by 1967. In recent months, the U.S.'s American Motors, Britain's Rootes, France's Citroën and West Germany's Volkswagen have all signed deals to begin assembling cars in Iran, thus giving...
...pause to rebuild, recuperate and resupply. Between 20,000 and 40,000 Red Chinese coolies were at work repairing railroads north of Hanoi, while scores of thousands of North Vietnamese laborers worked south of the capital on bridges, roads and other bombed facilities. A major project: establishing a primitive "grid" of interconnecting roads to offer alternative routes if the bombings resumed. Antlike swarms of work gangs took an average of only 48 hours to repair bombed roads, as little as 72 hours to fix shattered rail lines. Where the rail damage was too extensive to repair, work battalions often...
Asked by Subcommittee Chairman Walter Rogers of Texas whether measures taken by utility companies since the blackout-particularly to provide more efficient grid connections and adequate auxiliary generating equipment-are "of sufficient permanency to solve this problem," Swidler declared: "Without legislation, this problem cannot be solved...