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AlcoaU.S. company, the world's largest producer of aluminum. Established in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1888, it adopted the name Aluminum Co. of America in 1907. Alcoa introduced aluminum foil in 1910 and found uses for aluminum in the emerging aviation and automobile industries. In 1913 it established the town of Alcoa in eastern Tennessee as a planned industrial community. A 1945 federal antitrust ruling obliged it to sell its Canadian subsidiary (now Alcan Aluminum Ltd., its strongest competitor). In 1998 Alcoa acquired Alumax Inc. Alcoa's other products include plastic containers and packaging equipment. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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After discussing government relocation, Walker turns to a number of
fascinating case studies of rural industrialization by exploring the
arrival of the Aluminum Company of America in Blout County Tennessee in
1914, the growing importance of mining in southwestern West Virginia in
the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the creation of
tourism in the Great Smokey Mountains in the 1920s and 1930s. River and Sediment
Investigation of the Grasse River for Aluminum Company of America. In 1960, Leon Hickman, the
real estate vice president of the Aluminum Company of America, paid $38
million to develop most of the studio's land. |
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