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...more than joo small, nonintegrated steel makers, he held out a closer hope. Even the OPA is willing to admit that many of the small companies, without the advantage of ore-to-ingot production, are losing money. Mr. Bowles promised them a price boost...
...Defense Plant Corp. cannot compete with Alcoa if they are turned over to private hands. In general, the DPC plants are more expensive to operate as a unit than are Alcoa's, because they are not as well integrated, i.e., fabricating plants are often hundreds of miles from ingot plants. To get them into production fast, many were built to mesh with Alcoa's own plants. The DPC plants can compete, said Tom Clark, only with the help of Government subsidies. But if Alcoa is broken up, the "need for subsidies" will be eliminated...
...sized reject sheets by fitting them around the blemishes as a careful dressmaker fits a pattern to precious fabric. He also saw how to eliminate most of the usual waste and delay on scrap aluminum: his parts factory would be right next door to his ingot mill, where the scrap could be remelted and poured right back into more production...
Canny R.S. likes the look of the future; vis-à-vis huge Alcoa, he thinks he has a heads-I-win, tails-you-lose proposition. Reynolds will come out of the war with 160,000,000 pounds of ingot capacity, and with almost twice that much fabricating capacity. Much larger Alcoa will have about as much ingot as fabricating capacity. If aluminum demand should nose-dive as much as 50%, R.S. thinks he can keep his primary plants running full tilt, while Alcoa would have to cut ingot production and finished products in half...
...facilities are strained to the bursting point. In many war centers-Detroit, San Diego, Newport News, Cleveland, Buffalo, Louisville-new facilities have been installed, but dangers of a shortage are still acute. War production wallows in water. Nearly 80 tons of water are needed to manufacture a ton of ingot steel, 236 gallons are needed to make one gallon of alcohol; 125,000 gallons are needed to test each airplane engine. Present rationing plans are mild, would limit the digging of wells only by corporations and municipalities. The aim: prevent unnecessary digging, preserve the underground water supply, insure...