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...materials (wool, cotton and steel products), accounting for about 60% of French imports, the rate would remain 350 to the dollar. The calculated effect: a cut in import spending. Next, to give France a chance to recoup its reserves by selling more in world markets. Gaillard granted a 20% premium to French businesses that direct 50% of their products into foreign markets, thereby permitting them to lower their prices to make them more world competitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Down Goes the Franc | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...fuel oil daily. Some 275 tons of high-grade metallurgical coke are obtained from the cracking process for sale at about $30 a ton to the coke-shy aluminum-smelting industry. So good is the gasoline obtained from Gilsonite that it has a higher octane rating than several premium leaded brands. American Gilsonite figures the cost of a barrel of its crude, laid down at the refinery, is $1.50 to $2, v. $3.25 for a barrel of liquid petroleum. And the supply old Sam Gilson found is enough to operate the plant for over 50 years. With rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: New Industry for the West | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

...tobacco experts expect the figure soon to hit 75%. But do the filters help? Up to now. the cynical answer has been that they help to sell cigarettes, and nothing more. Last week a congressional committee* opened an investigation of cigarette filters, for which the public pays a premium of $500,000 a day. Weight of the evidence: there is hope in improved filters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Filtered for Safety | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...this first all-out assault on manufacturers, aiming especially at an industry-wide blanket contract instead of the customary plant-by-plant settlement. In the dusty cement bag dumped on the negotiation tables by the union were demands for a 13?-an-hour increase (to $2.20), a 10% premium for Sunday work, four-week vacations after 30 years service, and a clause forbidding companies to hire outside service personnel when inside manpower is available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Cement Mix-Up | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

...quality utility bonds rose as high as 4.58%, while the cost on bonds that were rated a bit lower was as much as 4.68%. On some bonds the yields topped those of blue-chip stocks; Columbia Gas System's 5½% debentures were sold at a premium that made their yield 5.40%, while Georgia Power Co.'s 5¼% first-mortgage bonds had a yield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Tighter Money | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

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