Word: utah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office boys, private papers, and a few of the staff somewhere west of the Mississippi, where the Times and the Herald Tribune had to dicker with the Emporia Gazette to use its presses and become two-page Kansas locals; if the Mirror and LIFE, without photographs, came out in Utah; if the Post were seized and George Backer, its publisher, and Dorothy Thompson were put in a concentration camp in the Catskills; if the Christian Science Monitor's editor were arrested as a believer in magic -then New York would have some idea of what has happened...
Getting aluminum from alunite is nothing new. Government geologists uncovered its possibilities while exploring Utah's mineral resources in 1911. In 1929-34, Bohn Aluminum & Brass experimented with alunite-aluminum but gave up without putting it to use. Meanwhile, Kal-unite's engineer-president, Frank Eichelberger, started fiddling with alunite. He fiddled for ten years. Last March, when the aluminum shortage became acute, he stopped practicing, sold Harold Ickes on the process...
...alunite process yields one-half ton of sulfate potash worth $18.12 and one-third ton sulfuric acid worth $6, as byproducts. Moreover, alunite-aluminum uses less electricity than Hall-produced aluminum. Kalunite hopes to borrow up to $16,000,000 from RFC to build two plants in Marysvale, Utah, perhaps a third in Washington's White River Valley. Both sites are near supplies of alunite ore, also not too far from titanic Grand Coulee, which could supply the juice...
...Senate steering committee had stalled about filling the job left vacant by the death of Morris Sheppard of Texas for several weeks, casting a longing eye toward Military Affairs' next to senior member, Elbert Duncan Thomas of Utah, who Is an all-out-aid-to-Britain man and an industrious student of military needs. But the rule of seniority is dear to the Senate: historians could count only two contemporary occasions when it has been upset. Now the Senators could not bring themselves to break the rule again...
Credit for the coup d'etat went to the Utah Chain Stores Association, whose members operate about 400 of the State's 6,400 stores. The tax was extreme, ranged from $50 to $5,000 a store, with the levy based on all stores owned by a chain, not just those in Utah. But the Legislature had passed it over farmer-labor protest, and the Governor signed it even after his own Attorney General had declared some parts unconstitutional. With these talking points and a sheaf of petition forms, notarized Association solicitors started a door-to-door trek...