Word: davises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ken Houk, the trumpet player, even looks a little like his unmistakable musical hero, Miles Davis. Houk's head is full of ideas, and although he sometimes appears to be thinking faster than he can blow, the emotional intensity of his playing is consistently high. The Blue Notes' trombonist, Sam...
Though all this greatly pleases Canadians, who are happy to see the Yanks second best in something. Aluminium is not so much a Canadian company as a truly international one. Its founders came from Pittsburgh, its plants span 30 countries from Japan to Africa, and 85% of its sales are...
Low Costs. Aluminium was created largely by Davis' imaginative uncle, the late Arthur Vining Davis, longtime chief of the Aluminum Company of America. Partly to satisfy U.S. trustbusters, Alcoa in 1928 tied its foreign branches into a single package and spun them off as Aluminium. Since 1951, when a...
Aluminium comfortably skims tariff barriers because it is a low-cost producer, benefiting from Canada's lower-wage labor, devalued dollar and abundance of cheap electric power. Harnessing the remote Saguenay River, Aluminium cut into the trackless wilds of northern Quebec to build the dams that now power the...
New Process. Aluminium uses its selling power deftly abroad, lest it court higher tariffs. Instead of pushing aggressively, its smoothly multilingual salesmen overseas seek to sell ingots to local fabricators-which are often Aluminium subsidiaries with local shareholders, directors and managers. "We can't run our foreign operating companies...