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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government, which has often been suspicious of private investment, last week gave approval for a plan to study the building of five fertilizer plants in India at a cost of $350 million, $200 million of which would be put up by San Francisco's Bechtel Corp. and a consortium of U.S. firms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investment: The Lure of Many Lands | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

...largest Scotch distillery, at Invergordon, to major holdings in downtown Toronto. Rayne, who has every intention of expanding his U.S. beachhead, figures that the planned G.M. building may well cost about as much as Manhattan's Pan Am building. That structure, which was 45% financed by a consortium of other British real estate men, ran to $100 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: A Gain for Rayne | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

...with its oil and farm produce, would have remained largely a provider of raw materials. Rumanian Communist Boss Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, wanting industries of his own, said no to Nikita. Looking outside the Soviet bloc, he proceeded to purchase iron ore from India and turned to an Anglo-French consortium for a $40 million steel-rolling mill plant at Galati, in the heart of Rumania's budding industrial region. Soon Rumania's trade with the West rose from 15% to 40%. Now there are signs that, in order not to leave the field entirely to the West, Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: The Reluctant Satraps | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

...Soviet Union has somewhat suddenly emerged as the world's second largest exporter (after South Africa), the big influx of Communist gold has failed to upset the West. Actually, the Soviet gold is welcomed by the U.S. Federal Reserve and European central banks, which have formed a consortium-called the London gold pool-to buy up gold as it comes on the market. Reason: the new supply of Soviet gold has eased the West's acute gold shortage and helped stabilize the free market price of gold at very near the official U.S. price of $35 per ounce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: That Russian Gold | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

...that Congress would not approve appropriations for both the poverty program and the SST at the same time-particularly since the aviation industry is balking at paying even 10% of the SST cost. He therefore chose to delay the SST. The U.S. is already far behind the Anglo-French consortium, which expects to put its Vlach 2 Concorde into commercial service in 1971. U.S. aviation industrialists now hope that the President has heard heir mayday cries and will see fit to put the U.S. SST program back on he runway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Waiting at the Runway | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

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