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...duties for coal & steel will be abolished. So will differential freight charges (i.e., cheaper rates for export over domestic markets). Inefficient mines and mills will be closed. This will apply particularly to Belgium, where a protective tariff has kept alive a number of sub-par enterprises. Within five years Belgian coal production will decline from 28 million to 23 million tons; owners of doomed mines will be compensated from an "equalization fund" contributed mainly by France and Germany; and the Belgian coal price, now 55% higher than the German, will fall to the single market level...
...Canada and the Belgian Congo...
LEOPOLDVILLE, Belgian Congo (Oct. 24)--In this weird land of drumbeat and mamba, chances still appear slim for finding a replacement seer before Saturday...
Ottinger, who is so full of nervous energy that he seldom sits still for five minutes, is not letting U.S. Plywood rest on its spectacular growth. This week he announced the completion of a new $600,000 hardwood-veneer mill in the Belgian Congo. Next month, at a new $2,000,000 plant in Anderson, Calif., he will start production of a new plywood, "Novoply," whose exclusive U.S. rights he bought from its Swiss inventor. It is, says Ottinger, the first successful use of waste wood chips as a satisfactory center for plywood panels, will cut production costs so tremendously...
...last week, the air over the French capital was filled with the whoosh of jet fighters. At an airfield, loudspeakers barked out flight orders in a mixture of English and French: "Castor Bleu, scramble . . . Cobra Jaune, en readiness dans quatre minutes" For three days, 450 planes of the Dutch, Belgian, British and French air forces, supplemented by U.S. B-29s, carried out Western Union's first air maneuvers. Exulted a French colonel: "Today there is actually a European air force . . . Maybe we're just a little ahead of the politicians...