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...Heart Breaking "There is a passion for declivity in this world," Tennessee Williams has one of his characters say in Comino Real. The ultimate declivity is death. But the pain that accompanies this descent in Williams' plays is a sense of what is lost during the journey-honor, gentleness, tenderness, brotherhood, the ability to love, or even communicate with, another human being...
Malta, with its companion islands of Gozo and Comino, remains as friendly to outsiders as when, in A.D. 60, St. Paul the Apostle was shipwrecked with a few adherents and found that "the barbarous people showed them no little kindness." Today, in the capital of Valletta, which was founded by the Knights of Malta to commemorate their victory over an invading Ottoman fleet, sailors find a paradise of bars, cabarets and girls. In its "fiveyear plan," the island has already built a gambling casino, and next year both a Sheraton and a Hilton hotel will rise over Malta...
Dexion was the answer to one of Comino's questions: How can you build storage racks for paper and type that could be knocked down quickly and reused? By 1947, Comino's experiments had resulted in Dexion (the ancient Greek word for right). As a framing material for construction, Dexion is stronger for its weight than wood, can be stored in 6% of the space needed for two-by-fours, and when bolted together needs no cross beams or supports to hold large weights. Labor savings in construction run as high as 75%. Sales were soon so brisk...
Periodically, Comino's enthusiasm for efficiency breaks out in plantwide campaigns in which employees are asked to submit reports analyzing their jobs. Comino regarded one such report-on how to sweep the floor-as such a "masterly" study that he eventually upped its 16-year-old author from apprentice to production manager...
Houses for $850. Though Comino has continually enlarged his London plants, built a new factory in Belgium and licensed Chicago's Acme Steel Co. to manufacture Dexion in the U.S., he has never-been able to catch up with demand. It will take years to exploit Dexion's biggest market, housing. A three-room house, like the experimental models shipped to Greece, could be erected in 160 man hours by inexperienced labor, using tin roofs and asbestos-board walls on a Dexion frame. Comino believes that he could sell it profitably in England for only $850. Using such...