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...construction crew was finishing a far bigger job, a $173 million hydroelectric installation. It was MK's share of the $500 million Nechako-Kitimat project of the Aluminum Co. of Canada, probably the biggest construction job ever attempted by private capital. To supply power for a new aluminum smelter, M-K had dammed a river to form a 120-mile-long reservoir, hollowed out a mountain to enclose a huge powerhouse five city blocks long, and drilled a ten-mile tunnel to carry the water to the turbines. At ultimate capacity, Alcan's powerhouse would be able...
From time to time, a reporter slipped in a question of local interest. A Texas reporter wanted to know if the President planned to reverse the Budget Bureau and keep the Texas City tin smelter open. Without batting an eye at the assumption that he would be fully informed on such specific details, the President said the possibility is being studied, but he has made no decision...
UNION battle for control of Montana's two big copper locals has ended after three months of bitter campaigning. Workers voted overwhelmingly (4,099 to 2,185) to stay in the Communist-dominated International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, instead of switching over to the C.I.O.'s United Steelworkers' union...
Salt of the Earth was asking for trouble. Written, produced and directed by three of Hollywood's blacklisted fellow travelers-Michael Wilson, Paul Jarrico and Herbert Biberman-the picture was sponsored by the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (expelled from the C.I.O. in 1950 for being Communist-dominated...
...bossed Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers Union, expelled from the C.I.O. in 1950, is in a losing fight to hang on to its members. Following the lead of Butte miners, 230 members of a predominantly Negro local at Republic Steel's Edwards Mine in Alabama voted to quit the union; they want to join the catch-all District 50 of John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers...