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...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 President Count Arnaud de Vogue, "but the Common Market made us do it faster...
...Long-term foreign investments in U.S. plants and real estate have doubled since 1950, now total $6.9 billion. The Italian balm supplied by Olivetti has eased the pains of the U.S.'s typewriter-making Underwood Corp., and other European giants such as France's glassmaking Saint-Gobain and Germany's chemical-making Bayer have opened U.S. branches with U.S. partners. One British real estate syndicate-Boston British Properties, Inc.-even intends to rejuvenate downtown Boston, has bought a tract near the scene of the Boston Tea Party to put up the city's tallest building...
This eerie giant, the Chantereine plant of France's Saint-Gobain glassmakers, is the most modern glass factory in France-and among the most modern in the world. One of scores of heavily automated factories now operating in Europe and Asia, it throws doubt on a thesis popular with many Americans: that U.S. industry despite rising wages and costs, can keep its products competitive abroad by ever-increasing recourse to automation and mechanization...
Breakproof Glass. A new line of glassware that is virtually breakproof-and if it does break, leaves no jagged edges-was put on sale by St.-Gobain of Paris at Gimbel Bros. The glass can be transferred from a subzero freezer to a 600° F. oven without cracking. Price of a twelve-piece tumbler...
...Russia's Berthas are adolescent sisters of the Big Berthas which Germany turned on Paris in 1918 from the St. Gobain Forest 74.5 miles away. Big Bertha was a 15-inch gun, relined to 8.26 inches...