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...world at large, English is the language of some 300 million Britons, Canadians, Australians and Americans, and the international means of expression for 700 million present and former denizens of the Commonwealth. By comparison, French is native to only 65 million Belgians, French, Swiss and Luxembourgeois, besides being the second tongue for 140 million residents of present and former French and Belgian colonies. In a recently concluded U.N. debate, 56 speakers addressed the General Assembly in English, 27 in French...
...Common Market's organization for research into peaceful uses of atomic energy, Dr. Massart is largely involved in treating colds, sprains and peptic ulcers rather than radiation injuries. It was pure hunch, he says, that was operating in 1959 when he was called on to treat a young Belgian technician who had badly burned his right hand with an estimated 70,000 r. of radiation...
Disaster, Disaster. Wagons-Lits feels the need of diversification more strongly than most companies: it has proved particularly vulnerable to wars, expropriations, deflations and other disasters. Founded in 1876 by a Belgian engineer who had admired the pioneering Pullman cars on a visit to the U.S., Wagons-Lits introduced sleeping and dining cars to Europe, devised Europe's first truly through-train railroad system. World War I flattened the company, and it was just recovering when the Bolsheviks grabbed 600 of its cars in Russia. It prospered in the '20s and '30s, then in World...
...even more striking effect of the merger is that it will link la Générale with another Belgian giant: the Solvay chemical empire, one of the world's biggest family-owned firms. Solvay has long held a controlling interest in the Société Belge de Banque; but the bank's limited deposits of $175 million have proved increasingly inadequate for Solvay's growing needs. Solvay can now tap the vast resources of the banks with which it is merging, and la Générale will strengthen its connection with...
...mining subsidiary Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, Premier Moise Tshombe, an old friend of Union Minière, does not interfere with Brussels leadership-a fact that has encouraged the firm to increase its investment at the rate of $20 million a year. The Belgian company still suffers from some political tribulation. In former rebel territory, where ten of its employees were murdered, production of cotton and palm oil has been severely curtailed, and on some plantations has come to a virtual standstill. Half of the production of its diamond mines is stolen...