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...Administration's campaign had begun soon after the Bethlehem announcement. Arguing that a 5% across-the-board increase was unreasonable, Johnson ordered Government agencies to buy steel only from companies that held the price line. Spearheading the attack was the Defense Department, whose 3.7 million-ton annual steel consumption (half of which goes for ammunition) accounts for nearly 4% of the industry's output...
Last week the so-called air-cushion vehicle (ACV) got its biggest commercial test when a 165-ton SR.N4, the world's largest Hovercraft, was introduced on regularly scheduled passenger runs across the English Channel between Dover and the French coastal city of Boulogne. The thrice daily round-trip crossings, which will be expanded to six starting this week, are of crucial importance to the British Hovercraft Corp., which builds the SR.N4. "Our necks are on the chopping block," admits Richard Stanton-Jones, managing director. "Potential buyers will be here watching and riding...
...Swedish and South African firms.* Financing will be entirely through foreign credits and loans arranged by the consortium. Part of the money will be spent on a new seaport at Cuama, on the Indian Ocean at the mouth of the Zambezi, which will be capable of handling 40,000-ton freighters. More millions will go toward making the river navigable as far as Tete, some 90 miles from the dam. One day the Portuguese hope to see a huge iron and steel works rise on their modest 400-year-old settlement there...
...Tinto will build its 112,000-ton smelter on the Welsh island of Anglesey at Holyhead. As the "buying-in" price for a cheap power deal, it will in vest $79 million in the new Dungeness nuclear-power station in Kent. British Aluminium got the coveted site at Invergordon in the Highlands, the last undeveloped deep-water port in the United Kingdom. Its 112,000-ton smelter there will be fueled at the cheap rate in return for a $70 million investment...
...bulletproof vest hung over his plaid shirt and his legs were encased in armored trousering when he was led, handcuffed, from a 61-ton armored van into Shelby County jail at dawn. A score of deputies with riot guns formed a defensive perimeter. Ray was hustled to an air-conditioned cell on the jail's third floor. Heavy steel plates block cell windows. Closed-circuit television cameras monitor all movements. Prison trusties who ran elevators have been replaced by sheriff's officers...