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...board of directors, among them its own director-general, Pierre Jouven, who is chairman of the new company. What drew Pechiney to Greece, aside from the plentiful bauxite? Cheap labor, one of the Mediterranean's deepest harbors at Antikyra, and the Greek government's promise to supply low-cost electricity...
...agency, the National Institute of Community Development. They will be assigned to a rural municipal having anywhere from 5-30 villages and will use their special skills in developing both the municipality and the villages. Volunteers in urban areas will work largely with the National Institute of Housing in low-cost housing units...
...geodesic dome is a sphere formed by tetrahedrons--pyramids made of equilateral triangles, the simplest possible shape in three dimensions. This gives the largest possible space to the interior dome with a minimum of surface area surrounding it. It makes a lightweight, easily-assembled, low-cost frame...
Arthur Julius Decio, 35, of Elkhart, Ind., is a millionaire because he early recognized and exploited the billion-dollar-a-year market for low-cost mobile homes. As president of Skyline Homes, the industry's biggest producer, he is worth just over $5,000,000. Skyline's sales in the past four years have jumped 500% to $59 million, and Decio expects to race along with the fast expansion of the two population groups that buy the most mobile homes: young marrieds and retired oldsters...
Nonetheless, the Chinese made some sales. Visitors were impressed by low-cost, simple-to-operate lathes, printing presses and weaving looms, and representatives of African and Asian nations placed substantial orders. Japanese businessmen were the biggest buyers, ordered $10 million worth of pig iron and iron ore and large quantities of soybeans and maize. Typically, though, they took home more money than they left behind, made deals to sell the Red Chinese $100 million worth of steel plate, stainless-steel tubing and heavy truck axles. In Peking this week, France will take its turn at supplying Red China...