Word: ingots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make the final decision: whether to break Alcoa up. Three branches of law are involved: tariff law, patent law, the Sherman Act. The Government's charges were in twelve groups, for different branches of the industry: 1) bauxite; 2) water power; 3) alumina; 4) virgin aluminum, pig and ingot; 5) castings; 6) cooking utensils; 7) pistons; 8) extrusions and structural shapes; 9) foil; 10) miscellaneous fabricated articles; 11) sheet; 12) cables...
...largest steel ingot expansion in world history was approved by SPAB last week. The 10,000,000 new tons SPAB called for, added to some 3,000,000 now under construction, will bring the steel capacity of the U.S. to 99,267,468 tons, twice the entire capacity of Axis-controlled Europe and Japan. It will cost the U.S. Government $1,250,000,000, take at least two years to complete...
...instigation, 30 steel companies had submitted specific plans for expanding their plants in 15 States. Their plans kept the regional distribution of the U.S. steel plant about where it was before. One noteworthy change: the Pacific Coast, with 1,865,300 tons of new pig iron and steel ingot capacity projected, was to be made virtually self-sufficient...
...reason the feeding can begin that soon: since an industry-OPM committee began scanning plants for a possible 10,000,000-ton expansion last spring (TIME, June 16), individual companies have already announced work in progress on over 6,000,000 tons of new ingot capacity. U.S. Steel alone in two months has announced plans for 4,000,000 tons...
...most of Canada's aluminum industry had been put out of action for weeks to come. The stoppage occurred at the $150,000,000 Aluminium, Ltd. plant at Arvida which, using cheap water power to process ship-borne bauxite ore from British Guiana, is now turning out enough ingot aluminum for 50,000 airplanes a year, and has become the second biggest single aluminum-production center in the Western Hemi sphere...