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Serious Shortage Of Copper Stocks In United States
New York, Aug. 20.
The nation's present need for more copper was understood when the Government disclosed that industry is already withdrawing metal from the strategic stockpile, supposedly a reserve for defence emergencies.
The announcement came just two days after the Independent International Union of nine mill and to striko again on smelter corporations decided August 27 against companies that account for at least 90 per cent of this country's copper produc- tion.
tons, authorised to meet defence production needs,
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1951;
Stockpiling Britain Provides The
Of Cotton?
Wathinglon, Aug. 20. Senator Joli Stennia proposed today that the Bonato * Preparedness Sub- commitice consider the desirability of stockpiling cotton and possibly other form
products.
- Ife auld, "Il restas lo me that wo should certainly stockpile some cotton for possible future military needs, and if it is going to be done it ought to be done this autumn, while the 1951 the suing to prop
market."
Senator Stennis made the ruggestion in a letter to chairman Lyndon Johnso71 of the Preparedness - Sub- committee.—United Press.
veeal brudarna
Finest Shop Window ROYAL INTEROCEAN
For Foreign Buyers
(By STUART GELDER)"
London, Aug. 204. **)
Britain has provided the finest shop window in the world for foreign buyers at the South Bank Exhibition. It contains. 20,000 pro- ducts, from tea cups to turbo-jets, chosen by the Council of Industrial Design for excellent workmanship and outstanding beauty of design.
No other nation, including the United States, has ever assembled such, a collection of articles, each one of which bears quality,
It is a triumph of imagination, for the whole
Construction of this splendid show is staged in a stall building. SHIP DEAL
In
Project
Arabia
It is contained between the covers of the most re- markable industrial catalogue in existence.
Millions of Americans and that our standards are other foreigners do not know (high.
sell and have i
thousands of
what we have- no time to come miles to and out.
Bu
have
REPRODUCE | IT.
WITH FIRM
IN HK
“
Ith Sept.
·Zisi Bepl
· 1200. AYE
2801 AUR. 24th. Auk.
11h dept.
13th Sept. 23rd Sept.
We are www often able to
In Port show them articles superior to teng London, Aug. 20,
ith Rep.
·their "own anything made in
M Jack Billmeir, 50- 16th Bep
zith Beyt. countries. We do not. see many of them ourselves because they year-old millionaire boss so abroad to buy our food and of the Stanhope Steamship other essentials we cannot pro Company, who once anid
London, Aug. 20.
development's In
thousands Extensive
who, Arabla were predicted today visited the exhibition have now with the registration In Saudi found what they were looking Arabia of the Anglo-Arabian for in the Design Review cala- Construction Company.
logue (many hundreds of large The British company con-typewritten folders) corned in the new organisation; now negoliating, with British duce by, our ovis 'efforts alone; that "if there was 'a 'cargo] un slaptin
is the John Howard and Com- firms.
Party,
waa
of London, I
and are
display
to
But what will happen Design Review when the Festi
foreign businessmen sands of are too preoccupied to come to Britain this year.
val of Britain is over? - Thou-
Limited, civil engineer-
"MASTER WORKS" ing contractors
disclos today.
Obviously an area ten times Mr John Howard, manag- the size of the South Bank site ing director of the London
would be required to spid today: The company,
very good thing we make. So The answer is to reproduce the Joint Idea behind whole
Industrialists were asked to sub-it and send it to every British Arab-English
to company is
mit products which they con Information and business cen show that it is practicable in ridered to be of a high standard tre in America and every other British and
Arab interests to of design, on the sound prin- customer country. Then when work
on together
ciple that a firm which takes a ever anyone asks what, we partnership basis.
Joi of trouble with the appear- havo for sale he can be told As a
partnership between
look. ance ah article can the British and the Arabs,
20,000 und disk. We have has received the blessing of
Government The British
and
Arabjo,
ย
50-50
to have taken a great deal with
Is construction.
has also been very strongly They then submitted descrip- approved by the King of Sauditions, specifications and photo- raphs of the goods chosen for inclusion in this master works" gulde..
choose from.”
There is no longer any justi- tication for that frequent com plant of foreigners, "How do expect us to buy if we you, don't know what you're selling Why don't you show us what you've got?"
to recommend individual fir HONGKONG
or products.
SHARE MARKET
zit Aut.
end Rept.
to hell and back, would the take it," has figured in another deal with overseas shipping interests,
Price
This time he has sold one of "Stan”- class vin company's steamers the Stanhall. was £325,000.
A
9,000-ton cal
cargo vessel, the Buyers pro Wallem and Co., the Fianholl
was built in 1925. big Hongkong chipping concorn, they pald was one 20- of the highest aver for year-old.ship of the tyme: 40-
type, does the immaculate What Jack Bilmeir, who started as an Baa week clerk in a ship. broker's office,
to do with plan the money? He has already earmarked it. The cash will help pay off the Stanhopb com pany'a 400,000 5% p.c. ference shares which are being called for redemption at 245
on September 30 nex). .. cach
operation 'Tolal, cost' of 'this
be
Pro
will
and the. £400,000 briance of the money required will come out of the company's kitty.
A Union, spokesman said that; been transferred from the such a walk-out also would reserve, 'out of a total of 25,000 affect more than half of the U.S. output of lead and zinc, other
"Each side is providing hall defence metals in extremely And the plants receiving it
the capital, and, for the first 10 light supply.
must restore a like amount to
years, control of the new com- The Federal Concillation the stockpile by next June 30,
The staff of Design Review pany remains in British hands. Service has, top mediators in "unlese this replacement would several key cities, trying to help not be in the interest of national hope that the organisation will vidual fr
At the end of the period we are not salesmen for any indi-.
in the catalogue. of British defence." speed contract negotiations,
be sufficiently built up to enable They are salesmen At issue are requests for more Lead and zinc producers are
author the Arabs to control the organi quality. They are not permitted September pay and insured health, pension awaiting
sation effectively themselves. were expected and holiday provision.
cations, which
"The object of the new com- down Mobilisation Director Charles to be handed
by the Production Authority pany will be to develop Saudi when a business man comes E. Wilson said that about 10,000 National
Arabla by the construction of 24 for zinc, and
in to inquire about, say, agricül- tons of copper already have on
August
pipelines, new roads,water August 27 for icad.
Major metal prices were un-water Improvements, electrical tural machinery, he is shown the changed with the exception of development schemes,, part, im-catalogue containing descriptions which eased three|provements and the construction In a few minules he can pro- quicksilver
lings in the public and vide himself with of buildings in the four dollars a fusk
panding numbers pounds)
range of coward and Company addresses and phone to hew $195 to $200 depending on the
India were responsible for the con- of the companies which make and quantity iraded,
struction of the 10-inch oil pipe manganese are up two cents a
NO BADGERING. long ton unit (2,240 pounds) line from Kirkuk to Halfs. They have been carrying out bridge works and aerodrome con-
con- The immediate trade that will LATEST PRICES
in Northern and result from this enterprise is, Major non-ferrous metals struction
Rhodesia and the of course, incalculable. But prices: workers to countries in need flivered; $27.50 per lb foreign.
Copper, $24.50 per tb, de-development of port instaila- will certainly be very cosalder- tions at Melbourne and Geelong able. Its most attractive, and Inangower have bern worked out
Union Lead, 17 cts per lb. New in Australia as well as orders in perhaps profitable, feature is that the visitor is not badgered York; 10.80 cts per lb. St. Britain-Reuter.
to buy. Louis; 21.50/22 ets per lb. for- elga; Nominal, Gulf of Mexico ports.
Planning
Migration
Of Workers
Geneva, Aug. 20. Detailed long-range plans for the: migration of European
by the International Labour Organisation, its Director- General, Mr David A. Morse, eald today.
Submitting
the
to
to $1.22 to $1,28.
United Zinc, 17.50 ets per lb Fast St. Nations Economic and Social Louis; 18.25 sts per lb New Connell the LL.O. lth report York; 29 els per 1b foreign; he said that the proposals would
submitted to the migration Nominal, Gulf of Mexico ports.
be
conference convened at Naples on
October
Aluminium, 19 cts per lb. In-
2 at which the govern- gots shipping point, Pigs 18 ets.
ments of about 30 countries
Interested
Europe are represented.
č
Antimony, 43.30 per lb. cased from (less than carload lots) New
to be York; 42 cis, lots, Texas; 50 els
1b, Idaho. per
Mr Morse added, "Energetic
Manganese Ore, Long ton, 79.8 action is required to promote to 81.8 cts a lb. Ingot ton (224) labour mobility in both emigra- elf US ports (duty for buyers tion and immigration countries account). An intensified and accelerated programme of vocational training borne, is necessary both to provide cluded, skilled workers for industrially
Southern
World Output
Of Carpet Wool
Washington, Aug. 20.
A survey said that the world production of apparel and carpet wool for the 1951-52 season is at 4,100,000,000 Nickel, 50.5 ets per lb, Col-estimated
Ontario, US, duty in pounds, on a grease basis,
slightly up from the revised Silver, 90.16 cts an ounce New estimate for the 1950-51 season less developed countries and to York, 1.03 per lb. New York.
78.5d London,
jot 4,020,000,000 pounds.
Enve this breakdown of Tin, protect the economics of emigra-
$199 to $200 a world production prospects: Quicksilver, tion countries from the loss of
The
United States: --pro- skilled workers who cannot flasic (78 lbs); Nominal, New
York.
duction for the current season is readily be replaced."
Tungsten Ore, $65 a ton unit expected to be about 260,000,000 Mr Merse said that detailed
As-pounds, on a grease than in basis, about practical proposals for action (20. ibs) ceiling price.
threa
more. through a wider programme had sociated Press.
been worked out which would
and
the governments to carry their own migration pro-} gramme in their own way which would also supplant national and bilateral action with such further international action as appeared. necessary.
Reporting on the setting up of the fact-finding and conciliation
trado commission
union this, Mr Morze said that no
reference
*vernment had so far consented |
to the commission.
of
Tho crux of the whole "matter", he said, "Is that the
1.
Japanese
Expecting
A Refund
of the finest things
them,
we make.
the names,
He knows roughly what he wonts. Hero is an opportunity to be found nowhere else in the world, of discovering the preclis product in an atmosphera quietly emelent as the British Museum library,
05
at
And to the question which every visitor will ask himself, "Is this a first-class job work?" there is the unspoken but eloquent evidence of tho catalogue. "It wouldn't be here if it wasn't,"
wandering spent an hour fiom section to section, trying trip up the staff by asking for something they hadn't (they don't pretend to exhibit every thing that is made), but received all the answers. I wanted in less than two minutes, and in several in- stances within half a minute.~::
device is the screen which has Perhaps the most imaginative been set up to show slides of 1958 tralia-production will be English pottery, in great de
15 to mand in America. Obviously perhaps lower,
photographa 20,000,000 pauntis or one to two black and white,
would not illustrate these ex- under 1830-51, South Africa:-production 18-quiately designed and coloured expected to increase about 10,- pleces. 000,000 pounds but to remain about 25 per cent under the record output of 1932 of (418- 000,000 pounds
"DEF..
ighth "2
per
cent
.
(From Our Correspondent)
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M.S.
"LAURA MAERSK”
Although he has not finished- selling, the Stanhall deal may be Jack Bilimeir's last sule for some time.
Meanwhile he is still ex- next his feet. For
M.S.
"HULDA" MAERSK"
M.S.
TREIN MAERSK”
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month he expects to take de- new 10,000-ton Business done on the Stock very Exchange this morning was motor cargo veseel, and its sister
ship
-four to six weeks later. valued ot. $233,305. Noon Their total, cost, is about prices and the morning's £1,000,000, most of which has already been paid over to the and builders, Short Brothers Burntisland Shipping-London Express Service.
transactions:
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down 38 minutes the 38
ticker system broke past noon
And for the United States from was without stock prices largest Exchange. Then the Exchange began to pend quotations over the bond which Western ticker, after Unlon
took over to se
restore a 1.00 2.79 10004, 2.00 partial servic
Prices were hesitantly mixed The in- after a firm opening: dustrial average rose two cents. but rallia and utilities declined 35 and 13 cents, respectively.
Olla Steels mostly lost ground.
Chemicals had were mixed. gains. Or 1,000 suraded, 422 declined, 307 advanced, and 277 were unchanged.
LONDON TIN MARKET
London, Aug. 20 The tin market was firmer this morning. Turnover was small, only as tons, including 20 tons for cash ge
Prices closed at the end of the official morning
Argentina:--producke all the places where they can buy | follows-
"Spot: in, biryars: Opok tin, selilorx Businesa, dong ; at
Three-montha..., thi Dustager done (mt) Bettlement
The most encouraging feature of this display is the quality of the people engaged by the Council to guide our visitors mated at 440,000,000 pounds, up what they need, we guar Tokyo, Aug. 20. Japanese Anancial circles ex-20,000,000 from last year, but they case to the
is still 15 per.com
I was in an office when an cent below-the pect that renunciation of Japan's it is
American came to inquire about interests in the Bank for Inter-1943 record.
New Zealand; an increase of a new spinning machine of high national Settlements as provided for in the draft peace treaty about 8,000,000 pounds over the quality yarn, made in Keighley. compotence of the comme will result in a refund of
Yorkshire, and a warp knitaing of 1980-51 season. resta andha consent of the
12,350,-
Uraguayang new record of machine, made at Burton-on- government concerned. Japan's contribution of
1961-Trent, which knits mylon or United Press,
rayon cloth in wide, at the unlimite. Fate of 1,000 stitches a min
uide talked ty YOUTU
exchange deslied and built tham kimunomas belle) knew that he was morning at the follow
hats (her. I Balking at the jerejo so about Tay Dollars (per 1 £2,000 a minute if the vision ruildert
illam tidale i pers Autovaht decided COMTEN UNE 2007
27/Bingapore. (Straits). The pepper märket turned Thru drat repetion of visitor Japan's Interest in the Banic for strong, and active following xp- to the lidzekwowa (synonă Aug. 20.41 | International Settlements From Vive mandagen the United; parda
and mis || oxpropriation under thug mestion, Stat
A government which has a 000 gold franca (about 21,400,- 180,000,000 pounds for the, clear cofacienço, hns
whatsoever to fear
Kyodo reported
hns, ribihing 000) Kyodo
In agreeing Touris cominancia
to the reference of cases to the banks Jointly raised Japan's
commission and an impart examination of the facts by authoritative International body as the most effective answer to tendentibus. Router,
usk misrepresentation
contribution when the Bank for International Settlements was cstabilahed in 1030. Subrequent mergers have reduced the num
of banks concerned to: 10... provisions of the draf
MARK spoelfically, exempt;
Seeds And Oil***
dealing with compones Lion is t
end
Dow Jones averages at the the session stood as follows: A 190 Industrials 20 rails 1. alon 15 utilities
19-batida:
Exchange Rates:
Pepper ** Market about them as though I had Business was done
Strengthens
Aug. 20,5
286.10
60,27
45.18
70.00
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MANILA, SAIGON, SINGAPORE, COLOMBO,
VODJIBOUTI and PORT-SAID:
Wednesday the 22nd of August at MIDNIGHT
ngers are requested to board the ve with their cabin baggage on Wednesday the
gust between 5 P.M. and 7 P.M.
Baggere, Room, endy Hold Baggages : will registered to ogloon Godowa Noc 60, (Nỗ, 21 Gate Canton Road Entrance), on Tuesday the 21st of August between 9 A.M. and 4-P.M. and on Wednesday the 22nd August between 9 A.M. and NOON.. No baggage-will be accepted for Begistratới an time.
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