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...Ventures plans to build mills and smelters to process ore from the company's worldwide network of mines. Electric furnaces will manufacture pig iron and steel, fed with iron ore from Ventures' mines on Vancouver Island, chrome from a Ventures property in the Transvaal, cobalt from New Caledonia and manganese from Southwest Africa. Another plant will manufacture aluminum. Lead and nickel from Ventures' Canadian mines will be processed on the site. A new, deep-sea port near by will enable ships to deliver ore and carry away finished metals all year round...
...Wife to Gamble. Back in France, his first mate friend packs Rolland off to navigation school, and in a few years Rolland becomes first mate of the Antonine. Off New Caledonia, the Antonine is hit by a hurricane. The wind shreds her sails and splinters her masts; the sea roars across her decks and smashes at her hull. With the captain dying, it is Rolland who tongue-lashes the men and keeps the Antonine afloat; with the captain's death, he gets his own captain's commission...
...mountaineer, gangling James Stewart lopes easily through his role. Wendell Corey stiffly plays Captain H. T. Peoples, former superintendent of Caledonia State Prison Camp, who encouraged Williams to work on the carbine, and whose magazine reminiscences of the event inspired the making of the movie...
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...eminent Irish artist" John J. Egan. What Egan's effort lacked in accuracy and technique was more than made up for by its scope and unfailing liveliness. It was a rare example of a recent but lost art, as far removed from the modern as New Caledonia is from the Mississippi...