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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Land of Earners. Arvida's other aspect is industrial. The great aluminum plant (the world's largest individual producer) is a mile long, half a mile wide. There habitants who have forsaken the logging camps and rock-strewn farms work in vast Dantesque chambers among massive vats and electrolytic furnaces. The metal they turn out goes into pots & pans, airplanes, building materials, cigarette holders, poker chips, electric conduits. Soon, Alcan will build an aluminum bridge across the Saguenay...
High Gear. In the first quarter of 1948, the British automobile industry nosed out the U.S. as the world's largest exporter of passenger cars. The three-month score: Great Britain, 56,812; the U.S., 55,444. (During March, Britain's carmakers, whose export quota is 75% of total production, edged this up to 78%.) Most U.S. motormakers, selling all they can make at home, have not tried to push exports...
Waco, Texas (pop. 56,000) seemed an improbable place for it, to everyone but the citizens of Waco (pronounced Way-co). This week they began a $750,000 white marble building, studded with stained-glass windows, to house the largest Browning collection in the world. The city itself had donated a whole block for it, right next to the Baylor University campus. The man who had made Browning a hero to Waco was Baylor's bushy-browed Professor A. Joseph Armstrong...
...accused of having its closets full of dirty linen. In a Manhattan grand jury indictment, the Government charged that 1) the company was a front for the German soapmakers, Henkel & Cie.; 2) Hyalsol had dodged $500,000 in taxes. It was, trumpeted antitrust lawyers, "one of the largest and most cleverly operated frauds against the Government ever uncovered...
Welcome, Stranger. American Broadcasting Co., third largest (267 affiliated stations) and only privately owned major U.S. network, will soon let the public invest in it. To help pay off a $4,000,000 bank loan and raise money for television expansion, Chairman Edward J. (Life Savers) Noble will sell 500,000 shares of stock...