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¶ Steel ingots, from 18.3 metric tons in 1940 to 21.2 tons in 1949; ¶ Coal, from 160 to 236 tons; ¶ Oil, from 31 to 34.2 tons; ¶ Aluminum, from 56.7 to 160 tons; ¶ Electricity, from 48,300 to 70,000 kwh.
In 1946, shrewd old Henry Kaiser expanded his sprawling industrial empire by leasing three huge Government aluminum processing plants. Last week, for $36 million, Kaiser's Permanente Metals Corp. took title to the plants which had cost $90 million to build. The new properties: 1) a bauxite-processing plant...
EGA had allocated $26 million to Western European nations to buy aluminum. They had been using the dollars to buy Canadian ingots at 16? a lb. This gave the Europeans a surplus of aluminum. They shipped the metal to the U.S.-where there is a shortage-in the form of...
Continuous casting (the process is still unnamed) bypasses the cumbersome and expensive system which steelmen use to cast ingots, reheat and mold their steel.
The Poorhouse. It was not the whole score. Against such successes, other continuing dilemmas stood out. Japanese industry had recovered to 40% of the 19307 34 level. For example, the great Yawata steel plant (a favorite wartime target of U.S. bombers from China) was producing again-62,000 tons of...