Foreign News: Aluminum Lost

In the 1 6th Century Explorer Jacques Cartier told his monarch in France that the Saguenay River in Quebec flowed through a land of gold and rubies, oranges and almonds, wherein dwelt men with no digestive organs, square bodies, and only one leg. Almost as unbelievable, for a modern nation at war, was the story last week, also from Saguenay, of how most of Canada's aluminum industry had been put out of action for weeks to come. The stoppage occurred at the $150,000,000 Aluminium, Ltd. plant at Arvida which, using cheap water power to process ship-borne bauxite ore from British Guiana,...

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