Word: ravenswood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less and are not quite so worried about Russian competition, have not retrenched as much as Aluminium. Reynolds is operating at 95% of capacity, and expects to add 112,500 tons additional capacity this year. Kaiser, running at 90%, recently brought in half of its new 145,000-ton Ravenswood plant, has deferred inauguration of the other half. Alcoa has postponed ail of its expansion plans, dropped its operating rate to 75%, "barely enough to keep the pipeline filled...
Hoblitzell made a big name for himself in high school as a trackman and golfer. (He still plays in the mid-70s.) After West Virginia University ('34), he turned to the insurance and real-estate business in Parkersburg, his home town, is now a banker in Ravenswood and a leading light in educational affairs (onetime president, state School Board Association; member, White House Conference on Education). A bundle of energy in politics, he won his biggest political fame when he helped Underwood into office, his biggest reward when he was made boss of West Virginia's thriving G.O.P...
Goliath in Pee Wee. Once a thriving river port. Ravenswood had a population of barely 2,000 when Kaiser bought 2,500 acres of land in 1954 for a plant to process its Louisiana bauxite and supply its East Coast markets. Planned employment by 1958: 5,000. From the start. Kaiser realized that one of its biggest problems was, as one Kaiser official put it, "to prepare these people for something which is going to change the whole pattern of their lives." The company flew in a squad of public-relations men from the West Coast, sent them...
Jury Trouble. Looming over the countryside last week, Kaiser's Ravenswood plant was still only partially finished, had only 400 production workers. Yet it had already shattered Ravenswood's past...
...highway to Parkersburg 30 miles away, has a new $350,000 elementary school, which Kaiser is building and is to be leased to the county for $1 a year. Telephone service has been vastly improved with 200 miles of new lines; city gas lines have been extended. Ravenswood's bank has added more than $1,000,000 in new assets in two years, and the local loan association has financed 200 new houses since 1955, figures to finance many hundreds more. About the only real worry in Ravenswood today is how to get its residents to serve on jury duty...