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...story of the Royal Commission's report is treated in full in the HEMISPHERE section. In this space, Lawrence E. Laybourne, managing director of TIME International of Canada, Ltd., sums up TIME'S reaction...
...protect its lion's slice of the British gasoline market from hard-driving competitors, Shell-Mex & B. P. Ltd., jointly owned marketing arm of the Shell group and British Petroleum, turned to an articulate advocate of the hard sell. In as the company's managing director went John Emerson Harding Davies, 45, youngest man ever to hold the post. A World War II major who credits the British Army with "giving me an opportunity to develop initiative," ex-Accountant Davies likes to spend his time with salesmen in the field, argues that many decisions that used to consume...
...steadily to overcome Socony's comparatively slow start in petrochemicals. A year ago, Nickerson tapped Chemical Engineer Paul V. Keyser Jr. to head Socony's new Mobil Chemical Co. Last week, to get into the booming British petrochemical market, Mobil Chemical offered to buy O. & M. Kleemann Ltd., a British plastics manufacturer, for about $20 million. Also in the works: a $20 million petrochemical plant in Italy, to give Socony a foothold in the Common Market...
...Reporting to the stockholders of the great diamond cartel, De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd., Chairman Harry Oppenheimer, 52, professed unshaken confidence in South Africa's future, at least economically: "Political upheavals . . . will not affect the basic wealth of the country, which is underground." De Beers' 1960 sales, said Oppenheimer, were down $4.5 million, to $250 million, but its diamond sales in 1961's first quarter hit a new record. Another reason for Oppenheimer's optimism: De Beers is about to begin manufacture of a synthetic diamond that he hopes will cut deeply into...
...delivery of a Rolls Silver Cloud has lately fallen from a year to four months or less. Since foreign sales still account for half the 2,400 Rolls and Bentley cars produced each year, the Rolls seemed unlikely to disappear immediately-and even if it did, Rolls-Royce, Ltd. would survive on its aeroengine business, which now accounts for 85% of the company's sales. But even the suggestion that Lloyd might destroy the most famed surviving symbol of British craftsmanship won Lord Kindersley some surprising allies. "My heart doesn't bleed for the expense-account set," said...