Word: gobain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks the walls of Paris and the sides of its ancient buses had been plastered with huge red posters bearing the reassuring message: "Saint-Gobain . . . a trustworthy trademark." Day after day, France's most aristocratic company, which was set up in 1665 by Louis XIV to make the glass for Versailles, blared its virtues in unheard-of fashion for French corporations-double-truck newspaper ads, regular radio and television appearances. Since Christmas, France has experienced what in the business world is something like the student-worker upheaval of last May and June. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, Europe...
...which stands for Séquentiel à Mémoire (sequence and memory), transmits colors alternately and meshes them with a memory device in each set (see diagram). The system is made by Compagnie Francaise de Télévision, which is owned fifty-fifty by glassmaking Saint-Gobain and C.S.F., France's largest electronics manufacturer. Germany's "PAL" (for phase alternating line) system, made by Telefunken, is an embellishment of the U.S. version; it sends every other color signal in its reverse shade and relies on a complex receiver to unscramble the signals...
Contemporary glass attempts inspiration without narrative. It is also more part and parcel of the architecture. In a blend of concrete and glass called Be-tonglas, Loire melds translucent chunks of 623 shades, provided by the Saint-Gobain glassworks, with concrete forms. Free as a mosaic maker, he often chips away the edges of his glass slabs, making them into odd lenses that scatter light haphazardly...
...same time that the U.S. market set an alltime high last week, with the Dow-Jones industrials closing at 830.99, Europe's markets were in the doldrums. More and more businessmen found themselves in the position of France's Arnaud de Vogué, president of the St. Gobain glassmaking giant, who reported that profits are up 45% for the year but that the company's stock has dropped 12.5% in the past eight months...
Says Gevaert's President Henri Cappuyns: "I'm convinced that Common Market companies have to grow to Common Market size." Seeking Footholds. President de Gaulle encourages French firms to join, and helped unite glassmaking Saint-Gobain with Pechiney, one of France's largest chemical companies. Because of De Gaulle's policy, many French businessmen expect the eventual linkup of the two big privately owned French automakers, Citroën and Peugeot...