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Metals & Machines. Last spring Gentili shepherded to China a party of top industrialists, including some from the huge Montecatini chemical group and the Farmitalia agricultural implements combine. They closed $15 million in contracts for the sale of fertilizer, rayon and other nonstrategic items. Regally received by Mao Tse-tung and Chou Enlai, Gentili himself won agreements for the export of strategic metals, machinery and tractors -if and when Italy lifts her embargo on strategic exports to China. Gentili is now busily lining up export-hungry Italian businessmen to try to do just that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Double-Dealer | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

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