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...policies had cut its share to .9%. But it had a reputation for quality, plus substantial assets and a promising moneymaker in its new smelter at Baie Comeau, Canada. Last April, apparently afraid that Reynolds or some other aggressive U.S. concern would buy control, Aluminium's chairman, Viscount Portal of Hungerford. got stockholder approval to boost the firm's shares from 9,000,000 to 13,500,000, sell the extra shares for expansion capital. Portal decided that the U.S. company he wanted as a partner was Alcoa. Last October Alcoa offered $8.40 a share (the market price...
...York Times. Du Pont, Eastman Kodak, Allis-Chalmers and Boeing Airplane all have excellent and extensive programs of their own for rehabilitating alcoholics. Scores of other companies have informal programs or refer their workers to outside clinics, psychiatric help or such organizations as Alcoholics Anonymous, Chicago's Portal House, Boston's Committee on Alcoholism, and Cleveland's Center on Alcoholism...
Those entering the various gates sit as follows: Portal 1, between the 35 and 50 yard lines; Portal 2, the 20 and 35; Portal 3, the goal and the 20. On the north side, Portal 30 is between the 35 and 50, Portal 29 the 20 and 35, and Portal 28 the goal...
Last week, nearly 18 years after the museum's doors had been closed by war, they were at last reopened. In the rebuilt interior, only one item of decor was salvaged from the original structure: the gold-and-white great portal of the main Rubens room (see cut). A stream of proud Münchners flooded every gallery in the building. They noted such improvements as the overhead skylights and lighting, and walls tapestried with ivory silk. Hanging against them with vibrant life were 800 paintings, the world-famous masterpieces back home again: Dürer's Four...
...with Formality. What Holford's new plan would give St. Paul's (see cut) is more breathing space than the cathedral has ever had before, within a setting of modern business buildings. Main features: i) a paved forecourt, 100 yards wide, before St. Paul's west portal; 2) realigned streets, to provide a sweeping, unbroken expanse of lawn (and possibly a fountain) in place of St. Paul's present traffic-cluttered southeast churchyard; 3) a plan for varying the heights of surrounding buildings, among them a 23-story office building farther down Ludgate Hill, while keeping...