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...long, ample "new look" that established his reputation and set fashion trends for a decade. Under the management of Jacques Rouet, now 60, it flourished, even after the death of Dior in 1957. But Boussac's textile empire, consisting of a score of companies under the name Comptoir de l'Industrie Textile en France (C.I.T.F.), declined steadily...
...sale of U.S. goods was a puny shipment of police motorcycles of the kind Touré saw and admired in Los Angeles during his U.S. tour last year. For private Western businessmen, the outlook is dark indeed. Government cooperatives are taking over foreign trade, and Touré's Comptoir Guinéen du Commerce Extérieur, the state-owned trading agency, is so deep in debt that prohibitive taxes are being levied on oil companies to rake up new funds. In fact, Toure's treasury is so strapped for cash that it has not even been able...
...City, there started his own rayon twisting plant, Cia. Nacional de Artisela. S.A., whose 25,000 spindles now twist 60% of Mexico's rayon yarn and make it the world's No. 2 exclusively rayon twisting plant (No. 1: 34,000 spindles in a plant of the Comptoir des Textiles Artificiels in France...
...steel exports were 36% above 1929, 192% above 1936. Rolled steel exports amounted to 2,337,970 gross tons against 1,040,630 for the first eleven months last year. Hence the arrival last week of the Earl of Dudley and a committee including Hector Dieudonne, director general of Comptoir Metallurgique Luxembourgeois, sales organization of the cartel...
...Comite des Forges is not as it has frequently been called, the "French Steel Trust." It is not a cartel. Individual French iron and steel companies are bound together by rigid agreements covering quotas and prices in to great groups like the Comptoir Siderurgique de France or into lesser ones like the Comptoir des Rails or the Comptoir des Demi-Products. The Comite cannot be said to "combine" these organizations; in actually, however, it remains the most powerful iron and steel organization in France. It does not sell; it does not produce. Its activities are more subtle, more delicate than...