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...enviable earnings record. The company was eighth in steel production during the first nine months of 1964 (setting a new company production record), ranked seventh in sales, and earned sixth place in earnings with a record $49 million. Even more impressive, it was first in net income per ton and second only to National in its percent of return on sales and investment...
...cannot give any details." There were plenty of questions to be answered and plenty of details to be filled in by Freudenberg, skipper of the pride of the Israeli passenger fleet, the seven-month-old, $20 million Shalom, and by Captain Kristian Bendiksen, 54, of the 12,723-ton Norwegian tanker Stolt Dagali. The two ships collided early Thanksgiving morning in heavy fog 17 miles northeast of Barnegat Lightship, off the New Jersey coast...
...midwaters between the surface and the bottom, a region usually neglected by commercial fishermen, swarm with great schools of hake. Often the giant net has caught them at the rate of a ton a minute. Pacific hake bring a low price because they are used to make fish meal, but the net has also caught ocean perch and other food fish. The bureau is looking forward to a time when fleets of supernets will comb the neglected mid-waters of the North Pacific, gulping shiploads of fish that are now almost untroubled by fishermen...
...third of the way around the world from Florence.Bearzi 's two-ton doules opened last week on their first services in the newly consecrated cathe dral. In some ways, the doors are closer 3 mint condition than the originals in Florence. After centuries, much of Ghiberti's detail was too weathered and worn to emerge clearly. So, after gilding the bronze, Bearzi's foundry chased the Renaissance precision touch back on. One craftsman spent six weeks detailing a postcard-size section, bringing out each and every feather on a bird no bigger than one-sixth...
...size of its candy, and each wants imported chocolate to follow local regulation. But it is only one bite from a batch of standardization problems that has been stirred up by the increase in Common Market trade. The Six have decided, after two years of negotiation, on 38 tons as the maximum weight for a long-haul truck, but they still have not stipulated how this weight should" be distributed over each axle. Five of the six prefer 13-ton limits per axle, but the Dutch, because of their soggy, shifting subsoil, demand a lighter weight of ten tons. Similarly...