Word: shell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radome--A telescope covered with a protective shell, a radome, might be cheaper to build and would be safe from weather damage, but no radome of the necessary size has ever been engineered. The design study will research the feasibility of a 350-550 foot shell...
...Shell-Shocked." Companies like Anaconda and Kennecott, which both have giant mines in Chile, are not so happy about the increase. They remember that, in the volatile copper market of the past, exorbitant prices have driven buyers to find-and stay with-such substitutes as aluminum and plastics. And if the "fixed" 42? price is high, the uncontrolled price is even higher. The large companies, which set their own price, normally sell only to large and regular customers; smaller buyers must compete for the remaining 30% of the copper supply on commodity markets like the London Metal Exchange, where last...
...SHELL'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF GOLF (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). First of eleven matches, this one between Tony Lema and Roberto de Vicenzo; from the Glyfada Golf Club in Athens. Color...
Three other drilling groups-Shell-Esso, Signal and Phillips-will shortly be joined by Rycade and the Burmah Oil Group. Among them, 23 consortiums have ordered some dozen drilling rigs, will spend more than $300 million exploring the British North Sea by 1969. There is every indication that their huge gamble will ultimately pay off. What they are playing for is a major gas field -some think it may prove to be the world's biggest-that is located on the very doorstep of one of the world's fastest growing energy markets: Western Europe...
...Saved by Shell, Faina moved to strengthen Montecatini. He acquired Adriatic Electric-along with Edison, one of Italy's five big pre-nationalization electric companies-and with it a $190 million expropriation payment still due from the government. Meanwhile, other nations gradually recognized Montecatini patents on such processes as Moplen, a light, easily molded polypropylene for which Chemist Giulio Natta won the 1963 Nobel Prize. Montecatini now holds 1,800 patents, fattens its income by licensing them in 30 countries. Sales are up 31% to $633.6 million this year, although rising costs continue to hold down profits...