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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Businessmen, said he, will not switch from brass and steel to aluminum and "risk being at the mercy of a monopoly." His solution: break up Alcoa and integrate the DPC plants with the several new companies as well as with the two other wartime aluminum producers. Reynolds Metals and Olin Industries. Tom Clark figured that this would bring lower prices, and a market big enough to use up all of the nation's vast capacity, which is at least triple the prewar demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALUMINUM: Oak into Acorns? | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

...bought into the Post in 1939, took over as publisher in 1942. Circulationwise it has remained a weak sister in her hands, trailed among Manhattan's afternoon dailies only by Field's P.M. But guided by her shrewd husband, Editor Theodore Olin Thackrey, a Postman for eight years before he married his boss, she turned the paper into a tabloid, upped the price from 3? to 5?, and (though she campaigned for the New Deal) made money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dream of Empire | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

...nation's 6,000,000 golfers were knee-deep in rationing and reclamation. At Chicago's Exmpor Country Club, Pro Ed Stupple allowed members one reprocessed ball for each two rounds of play. At Los Angeles' Wilshire Country Club, Pro Olin Dutra doled out two balls a week to members. At New York's Westchester Country Club, professional divers were hired to fish up balls from a lake bottom. At Atlanta's Black Rock Course-where a galleryite last winter offered Sam Snead a prewar ball for his match with Byron Nelson, in exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Golf at Any Price | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

Alcoa's own plants, and those it operates for the Government, now supply 92% of U.S. aluminum. The only other aluminum companies, Reynolds Metals Co. and Olin Industries, Inc., supply only a small 8%. Even Reynolds and Olin are tied to Alcoa's apron strings; most of their alumina (the intermediate material between bauxite and aluminum) is supplied by Alcoa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONOPOLY: The Winner? | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

...South Carolina, roaring his belief that in his God-blessed state a family could have security on 50? a day. A pain in the New Deal's side, he championed "white supremacy," the poll tax, states' rights. Last July, roundly trounced in the Democratic primaries by Governor Olin Johnston, he returned to his dirt farm to look after his pigs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 27, 1944 | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

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