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GUIDE TO THE NEW AGE OF OPPORTUNITY
A JOB FOR
Hope It Doesn't
Turn To
Gold
by
Nancy Spain
TWWENTY years ago, just
before the Second World War, there was published one of the most beautiful Children's books ever writ-
Stone."
YOUR SON
Where the young Tomorrow
ideas are paying off...
BY ALEXANDER THOMSON
TAVERYTHING about BHI And plans are now on haud M Williams was in, strik- to fit this mountain of money a ten: "The Sword In The ing contrast. His red polka- great deal higher,
How high will this "moun
man who is a deputy chairman tain" go? Listen to Dr Ronald Holroyd, 54-year-old Yorkshire-
dot bow tie stood out sharp-
muster called T. H. (stands for His bare denkop hardly It la by a former schoolly against a dark grey suit. Teretico Hanbury) White. _It ranked immediately with suggested a busy executive of c Wind In The Willow," became a best seller and, to his horrer, neited White about £28,090.
in the middle of a day's work.
He is the biggest name in the up-and-coming industry, and is regarded as is elder statesman. Yet he said: "We are Hortor because this meant doubling our output every
Leppe demand for organic that tax swallowed ell his earn- ings, left him living in a game three or four years. Ten chemicals could easily, double, treble or even quadruple Hanli,” keeper's cottage In the Channel years ago, our turnover was he taid, "and increasingly these Glads unable to afford to only around £1,000,000. Be chemicals are going to come drink, doing his own cooking.
fore I retire in 10 years' trom peircleum." The Sword In The Blone" timo, I hope it will be fell, all about the boyhood of | £100 million. King (Round Table) Arthur in
deliciously comic and alinally deeply moving style..
ocea
It tells how Metlin the magielen taught the boy (then known as Worl) how the rest of the world lives, so when the time came he should b A Good King:
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At the time
THE BOOK W3s, I think, this
From oil
We were talking about one of Britain's fastest-growing indus- tries winning basic chemicals for our factories and farms out of pil.
It is a new fold dominated by young idea where OPPOR- TUNITY knocks so loudly that it cannot be ignored.
I
Tondeus success because ready to a pleet
"it came to us at a time when
England stood for a
while
against the powers of darkness. Sit hit off'a'universal love of
of
The 1st of its products is
growing longer
and every year.
airing,
Seid the soft-voiced BMI
all good English things, in williams, "I challenge anyone to the countryside.
FUTURE
He in the 48-year-old manag-
ing director of the Shell Cheinl
cui Co., one of the lusty young offsprings of the oil and petrol glant.
name an Industry, that does not petroleum Now T. H. White, bas répub-use chemicals from
in some form or, another." lished this book in o mighty volume of 677 pages with three other books under the title of THE ONCE AND KING' (Colllas. 25).
The story follows Arthur through all his early years et kingship, through the forma tion of the Round Table, the hunt for the Holy Grail, hip un- fortunate relationship with, a by who turns out to be his hall-ister, through his marriage to Quinevere, and her love affair with. Eit Larieclat:...
The second, third, and fourth books of this magnificent epic, concerned as they are with very bumon passion and the swetul results of it, arb must defaitely not for children.
After the galety and beauty of- "The Sword On The Stone" even adults may find them a little grim....But they all reveal a mast noble theme: White's haired of cruelty and might for ite own sake, his angry disgust al war, and all the destručilan that implies, "r
All bright THIS theme is so fabulously well-wrought and beaten into the narrative that it makes these three extra books one of the greatest works to come out of England in fifty, let alone twenty," year.
Road flat-out, so near as on ordinary rozder can do it, in one sitting. The Once, and Future King" produces an im pression like one of those glorious illuminated manuscript's made in the Middle Ages for great noblemen all bright colour,'' waying plines, and exqulalte. 'little pictures
saints, monks, nights, and lovely ladies.
With this difference, Whita's hook is alive and moving from end to end: all animation, all lively and glowing, and figures have, real life.
I only hope it doesn't make bim another 220,000 and o condeinn him lo 10 years more Jife in a gamekeeper's cottage,
QUICK FLIPS
TWISTED TALEN FROM BHAKESPEARE. #lobard Armour. (Ilazmond and: Hankkond, ~ 124, 6.d.ys Comic A version of Lamb'o Tiles, from Blakespeare that conceals qulla Ar amount of gerülne khawlödge is the undergrowth of the sister'a rather schoolboy. WithThis.east of book is aifully difficult to do winil, and Citu beste (Pdara, Branikty, since dayono resplied, the bolghts of $1000 At All That.” Naver mjind /175. batter to try and - VOTAGEMATOCYTERIAL: Konésháry · HAITIS (Rolabarti, - 184 67 Very well written, Frather and obetaldi novel about a - lady of--90 Awho wuddenly pla herself at hai mawidgh to be a failure bb, shas embarks onak, love affair with a tininter called
Since the
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And to Dr Frank. Raffey the Distillers whisky ginni Johnnie Walker to Black and White-which is partnering the Bullish Petroleum. Co. n นาง new adventure.
"The petroleum chemical In- the carly dustry is still in stages of development, in spite df its spectacular growth.
"Young men coming in
now
have an amiense Beld before them in research, production
and mates."
All-rounder
TEN YEARS
AGO OUR
TURNOVER
WAS £1,000,000:
IN TEN YEARS
IT MAY BE
·£100,000,000′
MR. BILL WILLIAMS
Bers are minde of plastics.
It is the best mon who get the in Technology by the sand- br bodies in substantial num- best jobs, even if they have to wich" course method. jeap-frog over their moniurs to reach them.
THIS is the Gin
GORDONS DRY GIN
skriejskim
Quality Incomparable
Gordon's
Stands Sripreme...!
Dutbitor: BODWELL & COMPANY LIMITED
KAISER
But to be in the running for One way and another, the this you must have GCE at Bheil Chemical Co. may be
level in chemistry, spending between £60 milione plus mathematics and physics and 70 millon dn expansion che at "A" level and the other over the next 10 years. at "O" level-Well as English
Sir Miles Thomas, chairman Advanced of Monsanto Chemicals, made a special point of this.-
He told me: "In my company, and one other subject at "0" And the Distillers-BP partner. our aim at all times is to keep level. An alternative is a good ship it winning chemicals from the way clear from the, bench Ordinary National Certificate in oil is not going to be left behind.
chemistry, to the board,
.must
"Young men
show special aptitude and initiative in order to surmount certain With expansion the
theme, obstacles. there should
bdd-on clunce of climbing swiftly
"But it la management's towards the top if you are the to see that these obstacles are right type.
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And what is the type most. wanted? Back to Bill Willams again for a word on that.
not rumenmutable,"
Honours
Neither la Monsanto.
Add to that the £150 million which ICI has down far spuitd- ing on Severn-side Idr this new bo The course is designed to
Industry, as well as its big plans academically eQual to, an job, honours degree at a university at Wilton, Yorkshire, and you get a pretty good iden of the But it differs in that practical shape of things to come. experience in Industry, as well. at a theoretical knowledge, is required to obtain it,
It is the same in the indus trial side of the Distillers group. including its chemical-frain-oft partnership wth BP.
For science
Later on the Dialiilers' sand-. with coke scheme is to be ex- fonded to ineludio qualifications in - diftenlost, ·mation'leal and olectrical engineering, and in instrument technology, too,,.
His. dificulty, he sald, was not in getting people with the Here they take in young required icchnical qualifications, science or engineering graduates, Up and up but in finding the technically paying them up to £750 in their
qualified with the right person- first jobs,
While you learn you are entr mare then allty. wir £100 million has been invested
ing here, The Disilar chlets givo pay packets of from 23 a -by--Shelly--Imperial Chemical phe-men-who-is-to-head
Distillers, Industries,
British for top management in
this
Salories for those who have week to more than 26 108. st miuch as Petroleum, Esso and Monsanto chemicals from petroleum gamo done two years' research work 18, and rising to as in this new iden or getting must be a
good all-rounder, at a university go as high as 10 a week at 23........ chemicals out of oil.
Williams explained.
1900 a year at the age, sby, of 25.
What are the prospects for That depends This view is shared by ICI,
qualified · men?
Hut salaries which is always on the look-out on top of this, the Distillers chi, the individual.
сотропу has a broadly bated for young scientists of this kind, education scheme for recruiting are not exceptional.
year seen after 30 of £1,700 straight from school.
"Haven't we been thinking 100 much about our holidays lately Smithers?"
London Express Service
SECURITY
COUNCIL
A selloo Williams was a first
And with so much expansion XI man himself in both cricket Ils for young men - and and football. to win an open scholarship in qualified scientists or technold- sales should be steadily increas But he went on women who wish to become going on, the number of top jobs in management, production and natural science at Cambridge gists, or who are aiming at an ing in coming years,
engineering qualification.
all the same.
The basic .chemicals now
His firm mostly recruits young They come in either as labora being derived from oil are men newly graduated in chemis- tory assistants or engineering already widely used in point try and engineering. It takes apprentices, usually between 18 and enamel. them in al starting salaries and 18, They must have passed ranging from 070 to £700 the GCE oxam in at least two ICI used them for making year.
reience and three othat-subjects Terylene. They pre in Upatick at Ordinary level.
and cosmelles. In the shoes, we weer, and the washing powders we use at home.
At 23 or thereabouts, that is kood money. And there is every One, day, a week they attend chance of reaching management their local technical college to lovel
But plastics is their biggest and high pay packets help in their studies.
feld where they help to prodiaca before they are 40.
from: mon-made Every six months the com everything young pany selects number of rubber down to food wrappings
from old- trainees
Its inhoratory and packaging. fashioned honsense about pro- craltunta to study industrial Bli Willams belleves It is motion being by seniority only. chemistry for the new Diploma only a matter
For in the vigorous Industry there
in
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