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Standing on a beflagged platform in a newly mown oat field near Massena, N.Y. one afternoon last week, New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey pressed a buzzer. Some two miles away in the St. Lawrence River, buried dynamite charges exploded, hurling geysers of water into the air. Fireworks burst overhead, releasing a rain of miniature U.S. flags and Canadian ensigns. At long last construction was started on the huge electric-power project undertaken jointly by the State of New York and the Canadian Province of Ontario. Said Dewey: "The crapehangers may now soak their heads. This...
...Leaving Massena, U.S. and Canadian officials rode across to a field near Cornwall, Ont. where Canada's Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, Ontario's Premier Leslie Frost and Governor Dewey took silver-plated shovels in hand and broke ground for the project's powerhouse...
...YORK Central is negotiating to lease Canadian National railroad's 40-mile branch line between Massena, N. Y. and Huntingdon, Que. The Central sees the short, easy-grade line as an important link in its plan to do a heavy freight business by picking up Labrador ore at the Montreal terminus, shipping it southwest to U.S. blast furnaces...
...Reynolds' share had increased from 24.8% to 26.7% and Kaiser's from 14.6% to 18.8%, a combined total nearly as big as Alcoa's. Judge Knox was so impressed by the growth of competition that he gave Alcoa permission to buy a surplus aluminum plant at Massena, N.Y. from the War Assets Administration, a deal that had been blocked up by protests from the trustbusters...
...Department of Justice had asked the courts to break up the Aluminum Co. of America. Last week another federal agency, the War Assets Administration, approved a deal to make Alcoa bigger. It sold to Alcoa, for $5,000,000, the Government's $19 million aluminum reduction plant at Massena...