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When the Government started its suit, Alcoa had in fact no competition in the U.S. But defense needs and RFC loans have since put one competitor, Reynolds Metals, into the aluminum business, with three more-Olin Corp., Bohn Aluminum, Union Carbide & Carbon-on the point of joining the fray if Jesse Jones's Defense Plant Corp. ever gets around to signing the papers. Nevertheless the Government will appeal Judge Caffey's decision to the Supreme Court...
...Bruce's Government-owned water colors were put on exhibition at Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art. Nearly all of them were U.S. landscapes: from New England farmhouses to California hills. Many were by such capable U.S. artists as John Edward Heliker, Adolf Dehn, Phil Paradise, Olin Dows. Many equally deft ones were by relatively unknown U.S. painters. Surprised by the variety of techniques and the splashy spontaneity of the pictures, Manhattan critics rated the show one of the best in recent years...
After the Senate Committee criticised OPM last May for the nation's aluminum shortage, OPM did finally name Kalunite's parent company (Olin Corp.) to operate a Government-owned plant. But OPM did not specify whether alunite ore could be used, hemmed & hawed over location of the plant. Eichelberger wanted to build on tidewater at Tacoma, use Bonneville Dam power. He called on Clifton H. Chadwick, an OPM consulting engineer, to suggest this plan. His description of the meeting: "I was treated with all the courtesy of a cross-eyed stepchild." Later Chadwick visited the site, ruled that...
This week Engineer Jollie said he had indeed looked at the Kalunite site with Engineer Chadwick. Reason: OPM had asked Alcoa to build the plant for Olin. Mr. Jollie vetoed Mr. Eichelberger's site because it was on tidal land...
...plants will relieve but not end the aluminum shortage. Still uncontracted for is the rest of the expansion program announced by OPM shortly after the Senate investigation: four plants aggregating 260,000,000 lb. capacity to be operated by Reynolds, Bohn Aluminum & Brass, Union Carbide & Carbon, Olin Corp. Present capacity plus the new Alcoa expansions totals 1,200,000,000 lb. a year. Estimated Army, Navy, Lend-Lease and "essential" civilian requirements...