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Even at the painful cost of $200 million a year to its balance of payments, Britain has long accepted its role as one of the world's foremost aluminum importers. The high price of the electric power required for aluminum smelting has kept British manufacturing down to an insignificant...
Serious & Difficult. In the aftermath of the aluminum settlement, that industry's leaders, Alcoa, Reynolds and Kaiser, promptly raised prices by 4% on primary ingots as well as a number of fabricated products. A hefty settlement in the current negotiations, similarly, is almost sure to result in steel price...
Quietly and secretly, technicians at Fort Knox, Ky., loaded an estimated $450 million worth of gold ingots onto a heavily armed convoy. The convoy proceeded to a nearby U.S. Air Force base, where the gold was loaded aboard a transport plane and flown to Britain.
For the moment, however, trading remained volatile. Ironically, one reason was market uncertainty over the precise measures that the Basel meeting had produced. On the Paris market, volume was so heavy that dealers ran out of gold ingots, had to delay delivery of one-kilogram bars for two weeks. In...
Man Loves Factory. Although Canadian, British and U.S. films make strong showings at Expo, Czechoslovakia again emerges as Expo's, and possibly the world's, most formidable new film maker. Its most ambitious efforts are two multiple-projector movies, cum-brously named Polyvision and Diapolye-cran. Polyvision discards...