Word: pechiney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Africa's primitive past and its hopeful future met this week on a rapids-swept island in the teeming jungles of the French Cameroons. There the continent's first aluminum smelting plant-a $46 million complex covering 32 acres-was officially inaugurated by the French. Built by Pechiney and Ugine, France's two aluminum producers, the new Alucam complex shares the island of Edea in the Sanaga River with a new hydroelectric plant that will supply power for its battery of 208 electrolytic vats. Alucam's yearly capacity, scheduled to reach a peak 50,000 tons...