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...some of the motormakers, there was a silver lining to OPM's order: truck production was to be increased by about 200,000 units (to 1,189,000 for the model year that began Aug. 1). Manufacturers of heavy and medium trucks were to get A-3 priorities on materials (with a careful check to see that materials went into trucks, not passenger cars). But this same priority rating has not saved railroad-car builders from having to curtail production for lack of steel...
...case, the motormakers knew where they stood. They were no longer in the middle of the OPM-OPACS feud over whether a 20% or 50% cut was called for; time had proved OPACS right, and Henderson and Knudsen spoke alike at last week's meeting. Jim Adams' passenger car quotas were precise to the smallest manufacturer. For the four months ending Nov. 30, they were...
Alcoa's new 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...
Three months after it caught the devil from the Senate Defense Committee on the nation's aluminum shortage, OPM finally had some definite progress to point to last week. Drawn up was a contract under which Aluminum Co. of America will build three Government-owned plants which will produce 340,000,000 lb. of aluminum ingots a year, thus increase present U.S. capacity (built and abuilding...
...With Alcoa's new alumina plant, U.S. capacity will be something over 2,000,000,000 lb. a year. About to be signed with Reynolds is a contract for another alumina plant which will add 200,000,000 lb. To make up part of the remaining alumina deficit, OPM recommended last week that still another 600,000,000 lb. of Government-owned capacity be added to Alcoa's alumina facilities in Arkansas...