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...upstream from New Orleans. William Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp is break ing ground for $120 million townsite for 4,000 families, expects to finish first houses by July. Another $200 million will be invested in new plants there by Olin Revere Metals, Dow Chemical Co., Wyandotte Chemicals Corp., Kaiser Aluminum Corp...
Last week at Ravenswood, W. Va., the valley's biggest industrial project to date was going into production. Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp., No. 3 U.S. producer, rolled the first light-gauge sheet aluminum at one of the world's biggest smelters and mills, a $230 million giant that it hopes will soon push Kaiser past Reynolds Metals into the industry's No. 2 spot. For Ravenswood, like dozens of other towns along the river, the future is now wide open...
Untertan v. Obrigkeit. Publisher Augstein, a scrappy lightweight (5 ft. 4 in., 143 lbs.) whose family had opposed both Hitler and the Kaiser, started publishing at a time when West Germany's press was still timorous under Allied controls. His announced purpose was to protect the Untertan (underdog) from Obrigkeiten, or big shots, puncture the German's traditional awe of officialdom. Sponsored by British occupation officials, Augstein's magazine blasted Allied Obrigkeiten so vociferously that he was forced to get new backing, change the magazine's name from Diese Woche (This Week). Starting out with...
...President Monro Lanier. "But the demand for ships of that size is a stimulus that takes up market space in larger yards, leaving smaller ships for yards of less capacity." Although many U.S. yards, especially in the West, have not yet felt the initial boom, shipyards such as Kaiser's Vancouver, Wash, yard are being put into shape in anticipation of just such an overflow of orders-provided that the shortage in steel plate can be licked. "The shipbuilding industry will have to operate at 30% to 40% of its potential," says Leigh Sanford, president of the Shipbuilders Council...
...field near Aachen, a steel business at Mannheim, an iron works at Wetzlar. The family's real rise to power began under sword-scarred Hermann Röchling, prime mover of the Saar's vast industrial buildup of the early 1900s. As a war mobilizer in the Kaiser's army in World War I, Captain Röchling ordered the scrapping of French iron and steel plants in occupied areas. Later the victorious French sentenced Hermann Röchling in absentia to ten years in prison, confiscated the Röchlings' big iron works...