Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Steamy Valve. As a result, when U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Llewellyn Thompson called on Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov to request Moscow's intervention, he was almost rudely brushed off. A second visit, this time with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, yielded an equally frosty response. Elsewhere in Communist Europe, U.S. Ambassador John Gronouski reported from Warsaw that he was discussing the matter with the Polish government...
...Thompson sang Norman...
With all that, Inco is carrying out its biggest expansion at home. Of the $1 billion alloted for new development over the next five years, $230 million has been earmarked for mines, refineries and smelters around the town of Thompson in northern Manitoba. The expense is worth it. When in full swing, Inco will be producing no less than 25% of the free world's nickel which will be drawn from three Thompson mines named Pipe, Birchtree and Soab. Interestingly, the Soab lode rests partly under a lake with the same name. Two geologists, sent out after World...
...force of 2,900 miners, which will grow to 4,500, life around Thompson is rugged. The thermometer in midwinter hovers around-50°F., reaches zero only in late March. Housing is critically short and expensive, schools operate on split shifts because of the growing student population, food has to be shipped in from Winnipeg 400 air miles away. Contact with the outside world is through old shows on cable TV, three-day-old newspapers, or an unreliable air service that does the best it can with aging DC-3s and DC-4s. Not surprisingly, in spite of weekly...
Setting Records. Though Inco is giving Thompson highest priority, it is also expanding in Ontario, where five new mines are being opened. "In Canada, alone," says Inco President Albert Gagnebin, "there are programs to produce 100 to 150 million more pounds of nickel per year by 1970." To finance all this expansion, a company that has been financially conservative ever since it was organized in 1902 may have to go into debt for the first time. Inco is not worried at the prospect. Rising demand and higher nickel prices produced a profit of $118 million last year on sales...