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Next day, with Cyrus Eaton Jr. acting as host and guide, Krupp and his party boarded an airplane for the first leg of a 1,000-mile flight to Ungava Bay. But when the plane landed at Schefferville. Krupp learned that his mother, Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 71, had died in Essen. He hurried to New York to catch an airliner home to Germany, while Eaton and the rest of the Krupp party continued the flight to Ungava...
...Hopes Advance Bay, on the eastern shore of the Ungava peninsula, Eaton had helicopters standing by to take the Krupp men on a flying tour over the rocky ridges where Eaton's engineers have blocked out a billion tons of low-grade (35%) ore in one concession, 750 million tons in another. They expected to look over the townsite at Hopes Advance Bay, where Eaton's ambitious blueprinters have planned a concentrating plant to convert the ore to pellets testing 65% iron...
Under the elaborate scheme worked out by Eaton and Krupp, ships would move into Hopes Advance Bay during the four-month ice-free season each summer, haul the pelletized ore to Rotterdam, where it will be transferred to barges and towed up the Rhine to German steel mills. By great circle routes. Hopes Advance Bay is almost as close to Rotterdam (2,570 miles) as it is to Philadelphia (2,245 miles...
...Krupp and Eaton put the final commas in their iron-ore agreement and Quebec's Premier Maurice Duplessis gives his expected O.K., they can begin construction on the mine and townsite at Hopes Advance Bay next year, start moving pellets to Germany three years later. By 1965 Ungava should be producing 10 million tons of ore a year...
Died. Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 71, granddaughter of Munitions King Alfred ("Alfred the Great") Krupp, and herself fourth-generation ruler of the Krupp empire, mother of the current (since 1943) Steel Kingpin Alfried Krupp (TIME, Aug. 19), who gave her name to the famed Big Bertha, the 42-centimeter mortar that smashed World War I forts and cleared the way for the German advance into Belgium and France; of a heart ailment; in Essen, Germany...