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...year average of 57.2. Thanks to modern farm technology, the total harvest was wrought from 288 million acres of cropland-10 million fewer than last year. By 1980, when the U.S. will have 250 million mouths to feed, the farmer will be able to produce all the food and fiber necessary for domestic and export use on only 238 million acres...
...Europe's managers to seek greater growth. It was largely to brace Britain's already giant Imperial Chemical Industries against prospective Common Market competition that I.C.I. Chairman Stanley Paul Chambers launched his ill-fated attempt late last year to take over Courtaulds, Britain's biggest synthetic-fiber maker (TIME, Jan. 26 et seq.). On the same grounds, France's Saint-Gobain, Europe's biggest glass manufacturer and a burgeoning chemical maker, recently set up a joint market venture with Pechiney, another French chemical outfit. "We would probably have merged some day anyhow," says Saint-Gobain...
...major product in addition to rayon. As he pushed the company pellmell into the manufacture of nylon, cellophane, viscose sponges, cable and insulation, Meynen's two-leg theory evolved into a "many legs" theory. To broaden its technical knowledge, A.K.U. set up joint ventures with Pittsburgh Plate Glass (fiber glass), B. F. Goodrich (synthetic rubber) and Amoco Chemicals (raw material for polyester fibers). Special "flying squads" of technicians were set up to bring to the aid of troubled affiliates the best of the mother company's talent. Meynen himself succeeded Van Schaik as A.K.U.'s president...
...Kick at the Traces. With other European fiber makers increasingly invading the Dutch market, A.K.U. is fighting harder than ever to expand abroad. The company recently set up a new subsidiary to manufacture nylon in Northern Ireland and is eagerly eying the prospects for growth within the Common Market. Long a contented party to cartel arrangements in Europe, A.K.U. insists that some of its traditional market-splitting agreements with other Continental textile manufacturers are still necessary. But with growing competitive confidence, the company shows signs of being ready to kick over at least some of the cartel traces. Recently A.K.U...
...POLE VAULT: Marine Dave Tork and ex-Marine John Uelses, both of whom had cleared 16 ft. earlier this year, could not come near that height and failed to qualify. But California's Ron Morris, a new convert to the whippy fiber glass pole, soared over the bar at 16 ft. ¼ in. to provide the U.S. with another favorite against the Russians...