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THE CHINA MAIL,

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1959.

CONFIDENCE IN TORIES

Settlement Hopes Dim

New York, Aug. 11. Hopes for an early end lo the crippling strel strike appeared dim this weekend. despite the 'con- Sinus

effuris of Mr Joseph Finnegan, the Chier Federal Mediator to break the deadlock br- tween management and labour.

Hopes which had been raised earlier during the werk were dispelled yes- terday by Mr Finnegan after

long session be.

and

the

tween representatives of the Industry untons.

The

Mediator Federal told reporters that false hopes had been raised by published comments on the negotiations. Mr Finnegan that the two sides added had not yet begun dis- Cossing

the dollar and cents aspects of A new contract. China htalt Special.

London Market

Lower

London, Aug. 11

Thure Mas no punie on the Mock market today over yester- day's sharp break in Wall Street and losses were generally only minue.

Well Reflected

On London Stock Market

By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

London, Aug. 11. The London Stock Exchange last week gave the Conservative Government', a resounding vote of confidence. In the jargon of the market place even steels shone. And that is really For those steel shures something.

fairly seismographic in their reaction to every shift and rumble of the political world.

are

an

HONGKONG

STOCK EXCHANGE

wn Correspundeal

Wall Street Remains Strong At The Close

New York, Aug. 11.

The stock market finished the session today the way

Business done on the Hong-

it opened it on a note of strength. kong Stock Exchange thin noming amounted 10 ap- Late demand developed for Chrychr Moters proximately $1,800,000. Noon the electronics which splod

*co. quotations and the morning's over into some other groups Colombian Carbon Co

and left the market around its Commercial Credit highs for this session at its close.

sellous: Sharte nyeta seller ANS 11K Bank 523 0771

--

INSURANCES

Caton 601 0012

Lombard

40

Waterb.ut. 2420

Wisecock

Superficially, a great deal of credit for this SING

brightening of Conservative electoral pros- pects (I am assuming like everyone else October election) has been given to the forth- coming exchange of visits between Mr Khrush- K. Wait .. chey and President. Eisenhower.

Torfes in better stend than the prospect of exchange games of patacake be- conversationa! tween world statesmen,

The hero of the hour fore

1x that

While prepared to cpheet: that Mr Macmillan's handling of foreign alfairs has helped to which elimate h create tre

there- noch an exchange in possible, 1

unassuming suggest that the ordinary voter E relatively not influenced by bachtur, Mr Heathcont Ainnry. this. And if the tenur of Con-Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the first postwar custodian servative Party propaganda sel- vertising at the moment is any of the national pursestrings pointer. the capalin organisers demonstrate thal, as one

mentator put it, expansion and f the Tories agree with me.

i stability íኈንጤ /3 Fun in copil Transformation

can say that he has

The

almost unbellevably

harness.

No one

DOI KS, ETC.

$4

I tousklent..

Iskand LAND. HIE NK Hote!

BK tand..

Humphrey Realty RUBBER Anyala. To

Бабка ET VTG

10

1200

107.88

0.40 3500 4 630

1000 0.20 40.30 4000 19 0.33 400 35

103 415. 44 JZ19

2303 15

72324

J

2339 201JU 2006 ». 20.30

2136 23 100 SJ 3950

200

10%

14.00 10.39

XI

1.4 1.5 1100 15,

2005 3.675

2500113

Between the opening and the close, however, the market drifted listlessly, with a number from of issues backing down their early highs. The late rally restored most of the gains,

Conwolkinted. Edboo Contental Oil of Del. Crane Co...!! Crown Zelierbach Diamond Alka Diamond Card Dominus Store# Dougiza Alwaất Dow Chemtenía 1 Dupont de Nemours Eastern Marino

Pastman Казак

Paso National Cas

Fazaily Finance Corp.

Al the close, Zenith was up Fireline Tyre & Rubber around six points and TexasFin Not, City Danc Instrument and Motorola around Ford Maser Co. of Cans,

Ford Motor... five points sich. IBM was up Georgia Pacific more than 15 at its best level,General Dynamics near the close. Reynolds and General Foxida

General Electric Alcoa lumed strong In the General Motors aluminium and American | Geo. Pab. UUL Motors stend out in the mules.

Good gains in Du Pont and tho helped Eastman Koclak

50 Industrial average recover part

of yesterday's sharp loss.

*Fr

BUNU 1500

-

A Tawah.. 310

CrILITIES Tran

295 070

1099.7J

Star Ferry

135

$7

No. 17

Yauora

11:0

IR

But there

Hus

C. Light

19.00

18

more in-

J

SOUTH

Electric

20 20.20

505 - 20 43 29 2018 100% 21%

healthy looking young men and not done an excellent job since

who grin winningly at the took office.

Wonnea

a from their posters all exhort before him now a me to keep the Conservativasportant and decisive ask that

in power bespuse of the trans, he has yet need. Between now

they have wrought and the formation

in the domestic economy,

hypothetles election idate in mid-October, the Chun- feeting of security and cellor has to The

demonstrate that stable having achtoved stability he can engendered by hope prices, Industrials last ground at the creased production und

1 feel stand the opening but steadied later to parts, these

finish regularly lower. Anteri can favourites such as Philips Lamps. Babeucks and Unilever, huwever, came in for moderate Steel shares

selfing,

around one shilling.

declinee!

Oil stocks were lower.

Colls stocks rolled in late

trading

011

African buying.

Louth

selective

securities

WITC

Git-edged caster where changed.

Greeks, were

foreign

Lond

stocks fell

Street. UPL

market, Dollar back with

Closing Prices

Wal!

higher WORDS,

-

<X-

Panama Canal Traffic

1

maintain it.

1000 1 20.10

Today's volume was 2,000,000

ghores.

Of a total 1,103 shures traded 710 were higher, and 285 lower. American Exchange volume was 1,000,000 shares,

Bonds volume amounted to $6,450,030,

Dow Jones closing averages were:

30 dsantrials

20 calls....

19 titie

05 stocks

200+ 20.2J 500 14 29.10

400 bonds

10 Macao E. Telephone 25.0 29.80 1600 23.70

Watson

Check Inflation

Somehow he must cheek ony potential rise in prices and costs

Metal I which would set the good old STORES, ETC inflationary spiral

whirling Dalty again.

Bul being a Conservative he

contrive to do so without Craw. XD 19.19 BEAU ar fals

the one band atting free enterprise of employers or on the other tampering will; the workers' right to seek bigger payparkets.

must

COUTS!! is most olaviotis

Naoyan

MISCELLANEOUS Is

INVESTMENTS

Idently,

Course ut Action i stimulates demand-and there-

fore employment-and at the same thing does away with one of the major arguments of those who seek higher wages

1000 291.70

1000079

500 28 78

2000 - 5,05

10.10 10.43

13.20 12.00

0.00 7.00 4.70 4.99 1000 4,70

4000+ 444

Comun. future price index ..

Closing Prices

Abitibi Pwr. & Paper

Alted Clienteada

AlRed Mills Inc.

Am. Mach. &c Fdry, American Metal

Am. Natural Gas American Smelling Am. Sugar Ref..... American Tri American Tod. "B" Ansonus Copper Antico Steel Aumour Ating

Gen. Tyre & Rubber Getty Di...

Goodrich (B. F. Co.

Glidden Co.

Goodyear Tyre

Genusan Alterati

Haughtond Organ

Gulf Oil

Heyders Newport Corp.

Eleirotake mining củ

Husson Herrig.

| Idaho Power

Imprint On Ingen-Rand

Inland Steel Co. Interchiemical Carp. Int'l Dusteres Machines

In Harvester Internailuna! Nickel

Pazo 9

NSPORTATION.

First Nuclear Powered Ship

To Be Launched

A 22,000-ton

yassol with

cargo

Jersey last

Q

about 20 knots was month.

spood of

launched in New

x

479%

1374xd

214

203rd

41

21% 455%

421%

זן

30

Although there does not sound to be anything unusual about this, the ship,

the "Savannah" is the

world's first

huclear powered ship to go into service,

bearing the same

name as the first

vessel to cross the Atlantic by steam

propulsion.

The "Savammah” I 395 feet long with a maximum width of 70 feet and will be able to carry 9,400 tons of cargo together with 60 passengers and a crew of 200.

is

423

3522

103)

Internation Paper

12016

pent

In't Fet & Tei

John-Manville Co.

STEL

450.0

Katser Tuntry

105

182.1.

Carsan C. Power & Light

91.29

Kennett Copper

219.15 Kimberly Clark

63.61

Liggett Meyera Tob

100.21

Lily Tulp

Liston ini...... Larkheed Alžī Loews Incorp, Lone Star Cement Lowenstein & Sona. McDermoti J. Hny McDonnell Aircraft Meanbl from Corp. 123xu Minnesota Mining

40% Malon Devolopnirot

$30

30

اجور

there the outside

than some 40 per cent above those for a conventional vessel. Nevertheless, rumming costs are

this case still put at some 10 per cent higher than, with n all-propelled tanker.

From nothing unusual in her fines One important question rained beyond the absence of a funnel, by the taunching of the but some recent passenger liners "Savannah" remains to bo have had theirs so effectively answered y

PX- operating disguised that this does not epi-perlence. To the extent that the remarkable. Indeed, it is nuclear ship will offer a better of faster de- the new cargo-handling equip service in terms ment made up of steel Tubes, very of goods and passengera that give the "Savannah" uch or greater comfort she will tend unorthodox lines ns it possesses to draw traffe away from con- With a single fran the exterior.

ventional Rects. ship this diversion counot be great, but it is probable thai with tour or dve nations trying out several kinds of reactors there might well be a dazen or more semi-experimental nuclear ships saling the seas within a few years. SUBSIDISED

PRESSURISED

The engine Is a pressurised water

reactor, very similar int already in service in the American submarine "Nautilus." In-conjunction

with a steam raising bolter the steam turbine raises some 20,000 ha. and five-bladed propeller through double reduction gearkig.

drives u

The reactor, together with the elaborate shielding designed to radiation rlaks. 44 eliminate all

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INDUSTRIALS Cenient....

3

307, 2200 23 2000 1

Alden Inc. Aey..

33

Algoma Steel Corp.

12.30 17,40

19/9 $1.30

Ama Chalmers

33

Monsanto Chemical Co.

100 1.40

Am Brake Shoe

151,

Montgomery Ward

17.20 18 19

300

1,73

American Airline

277xit

Motorola The.

2030

17.70

Alt. Cable & Radio Carp,

National Bat Co.

551

500

17 20

American Cyanomid Co.

6JT

National Carh Rea. "A"

500

39.10

Art Forgn. Power

11

National Dalty frod.

53

von H. 143 COTTONS

0.03 Textile

Art Ge& Electric

National Lea

127

AL Home Prod.

177

610 3 0.05

National Steel Corp. New York Central"

97%

2112

Noranda Mines Ltd,

20K) 16.03

13

Norfolk & Western Ry

145

North Amer, Aviation

4016

Northwest Airtines (Cur. !

JD

Tel

BO

Olia Mathieson ...

2nd

10%ə Elevators

Owen-imotu Gluma

a

3

74%

Orion Paper Co.

Zilming

11

45

Torke Davin Co

Penny J, C. Co

26

Pern. Salt Co.

Bendix Aviation Corp.

74 Pulp Morris

14

D.5

30

Co.

Publicker Industries

Brughs And Machine

The

111 Amer. Of

Radio CorporaSou

Cal. Packing Corn,

0746

Raytheon

4.03

Can Dk. of Cora

Itepubite Steel

50

Royal Bank of Chunda

1073

at

5514

IK A FR Invest.

14.00

Exchange Rates

Washington, Aug. 11.

that is to campaign for price int An in a quiet Mr Merrill Whitman, Secre- the one he seems set to purse: VIDTO. tary of the Panama Canal cuts by manufacturers wherever Allied Company, warned today there can be justineri. that traffic jums in the ch Canal may be recurrent till 1963.

will "Delays

Suntinte occur from time to time until

Just how the Chancellor will angFovements

the Canai

convince the manufacturers that I have been completed." he said.

they should eat prizes is not JENIS

Back in Washington after a

yet known. But if he can do so M: 1950

ip to the Canal Zone.

October the June- demonstrably before Whilman said that

well set the seal mi o duly crisis which tied up ship- he may

victory.-London: Siam tenta (per 105) a seven-day Conservative 1960/90-1999 and Fortis

Singapore (Straits) fur Express Service. work-week

kedged Bunda

Belush Transport

378.83--

PORSAR 4 £74.320.

£0.

tug

bean

Loan

Funding Stuck

Funding

272-11, 10.

1-1/10.

الله اول

J. 1990/3001–

Luan 400

Savings 37, 1935/65-1. Savings 1960/70-281-0/16 Suvinen

Banker

! 37, 105/753-70-5/10. Rarely, Dank Ltd ord-57,

"Chartered Bank - 43% 64.

Itunakuta--Lit

Insurance

Union ounce Canton - £3%

Airerall and Mulors

Motor

Ord-14 Corp.

Ford Mastur Le-ta M.

Brewerits

Distillers Co-2 $0.

Building and Materials Axelated Portland Cement - 58a Ex-capulisation correct.

Finchin Johnson Associates Ord- 211

L'oat, steel and Engineering Babcock & Wilcox Ltd-52, 7c. Vickers Lid-3 10.

Food and Tobacco

Attish American Tob. Co., Ltd- DIN F

inperlai Tobaten Cu.. Luth--$1

MiscellaneGUE launan Marden lad Is 20h. Britai

Oru-s Dxygen 478.

Cenodian Pacific Rly-$317. Dunlop Rubber Co-241 64. Hongkong & China Ga-134. Ispertal Chemical-37. lychs & Co-71 0. Unilever L-104.

Paper Bowater Paper Corp

Radio and Electrioni Azzaelated Electrical-d24, Electrical & Musical-30 d Engl Electric Comdie KG, General Electric-27 Qu.

Shipping

Ord-

Indo-China Stomm Nav. Ca. P&G Sieune Navigation et

ord-20 34.

Stores

Great Universal Stores "A

On

werd

energency Cinal personnel had been eased. Restoration of two-lane tree in the Canal had relieved the congestion, he said.

tital He indicated, however,

still faced shipowners with the possibility of occasiona! raffle jams during the next few years while Canal Installa- tions are being improved to ac- commodate the steadily rising trafie fonds.

PEAK TRAFFIC

A major factor in the crisis Just past was the peate trailic, beginning in mid-June, which included a swarm of big new superships.

Yesterday's Closing

Even under normal operating [conditions, the Canul is not yet | per th

geared to handle so inany large vessels arriving all at once.

Mr Whitman could give no explanation for this sudden con- centration of ships at the Canal. In fact, he said, it defied analysis -coming at a time when world shipping is in a slump, with 17 per cent of U.S. tankers now idle and over 7,000,000 of the world's tanker tonnage reported idle.

_ [L* \n1 1 + wan clone in the ten!

exelitug Market mofficial morning at the following rates: U.S. dollar per $1 Sterling notes (per £1 Australian nolex (per intoresc uplah (per 100)..

1)

non-Ham,

Baillatore & Ohto Hank of Montrent

Henricial Finance

Bernuct Cons.

Bethlehem Steel

Boeing Airplang Darden (The

150 | Campbell Saun Co.

12.81

15

Case (2. 3.) CH.

Cat. Tractor

20 32 Celanese Corp.

1.83 C. 1. T. Financial Corp.

COMMODITY PRICES

SUGAR

NEW YORK Closing prices all in

conts

Contract No. 4 (world)

Sept.

l,

Jan. March

Max

Sopt Oct.

Spol. Cuba)

2.97 21.00

Total Sales: 144 contracts. Open filercat: 1.200 cantizețe,

$.89

COTTON

N..W YORK

Closing prices all in cents per

1b..

Dov: Oct: 12.00: Suu!: 03.15; 32.14-15; SEAT 32.50-51: May: 22.07: July: 32.30: Oct: 30.20; Dee: 30 30.

NEW ORLEANS Closing prices all in cents per 1b.:

Spot: 3130; Get: 1100: : 1229: Mor: 3249: May: 52.07: July: Oot: 30.29 Dee: 30.30.

SAO PAULO

52.16:

Closing prices all in cruzeiro per kilo:

Oct: 03.50; Dec: 61; Mar: 4; May: 63.90,

Contract No. 8 (domestic) Sept. Nov, March

5.40 Spot (Cf. M.Y. ex-duty) 342 An

Tatal Sales: 31 contractK. of water,

Open hattest: 3,300 evatrarts—UPI.

Large ships take at least 12 hours to go through the Canal, compared to eight hours for a del verage vessel. Moreover,

elght-mile stretch familiarly known as "The Cu must be cleared for a large

transit.

Present plans call for "The Barks & Spencer Lid--381. Woolworth F. W. "Comaze Cut" to be widened from 300 to

31%

4:55.

-745.

Textiles

Cool

Lid-28 d

Courtaulds Ltd-100 3d,

Minoi

198

Cong Guldricide of South Africa

TDA 7

ܐ܂

500

foot and its

channel

deepened, enabling large ships

to go through two abreast. Half-Bnished now, the work is

to

Согр of South progrossing at the rate of one ib.:

mile a year but is net due be completed for several years. Lead -UPL

Cony Line Corp. Ord-00, P. Da Deste defeitos ou cut.

Free State Development & Invest- mel--ti. Pişik.

Hongkung The

list.

Petaling Tin-Se Du

Rand-1911 7854.

Bouthern Kinta

'Uniton Carp-754.

Cons Lid-231

Went Driefontein Goldmining-

247 042.

West Rand Con

British Borneo Petroleum Syndi-

cate-sex t

Goodyear Income

New York, Aug. 11.

SIVITI

SINGAPORE

Prelle Cax & Elec.

Paramount Pictures

tney Bowes

Procter & Gamble Co. Pittsburgh Piste Glies

1274 Pure Ou

Closing prices all in Straits

rents

Forts;

per ib.

No. 1 Aur.

Sept

No. 2 Aug.

1.0.b

Malayun

1001-103 104-106 104-101 1022,-1041

Reyookis Metal

Sears, trebuck & Cur.

Shell O Co.....

Sateway Stores

Sant Reg. Paper

Schenley Inc.

Sealt per

Sinclair Oil....**

Stalth, Clio

Soruny Mobi Oll

weighs over 2,500 tons, and the permanent sieci, vessel is some 50 feet high and 35 feet In diameter. It is zereened with

nyers of concrete

sicel, and 214 with a polythene coating round A whole the sphere itself. range of devices are Installed to ensure that the reactor stops working during an emergency. 20 and that radioactive leakage in the event of the ship sinking will be avoided. Even if involved in

collision the "Savannah"

2414

45

13014 30%

357

3312

21

It is quite clear that they will nat cover their costs and that their freight charges will there- Jore

this be pufosidised. If should prove nufficient to distort The present pattern of czen carriage of dreicht and passen-

gers, consticruble chacs could follow

With the present surplus of conventional shipping lumage likely to persist for some years, there is a very ubvious danger of a eltuation developing rather like that now affecting world's airlines,

the

It has been shown that even the slightest increase in operat- Ing speeds tends to attract traffic

123 would offer well over a foot of from airlines with slower nir-

steel to be penetrated before the reactor core. could be breached.

l

70%

ねい

409,

371,

1/201

443

04

001

French

50

45

Bolar Aircraft .....

10:2

South Puerto Rico Supar Bouthern Co. (The)00 Scuthern National Ga

210

40%

Southern Railway (Cur.) Standard Brond Standard Oll of Cal Standard Oil of Ind.

8415

11

3

#alixd

Standard Oil of NJ.

Z3

Strep Rock Sterling Drug Co.

Texas Co.

960

HEAVY LOSS

craft and to render oleolete within a matter of a few years, planes which have many years left in them of useful pervise but which have to be sold be- cause they cannol compete to the full in speed.

By the end of 1060 the "Savannah" should be in service, but will operate at a very heavy

This has come about because less. The cost of some £13 of the agreement on fares which million is best regarded or a effectively rules out the porti- Investment in experience: exbility of charging according to perience in constructing End service provided, and puts a operating a nuclear cargo vessel decisive premium on air speed. and a training the crew to mon It is very much to be heped that the early operation of This cost is about double that nuclear ships will not be allowed the same kind of of a conventional vessel, end to produce even a reduction of running custs self-defeating situation through the subsidy, policies of the res- through much lower fuel charges and some eut in the number of ponsible Governmenta.

operate the men required to

Que,

"Savannah"

will not suite 10

offset the disproportionate Cut Prices On

copital costs.

The "Savannah" may well not

operate in the best conditions European

Stakely-Van Camp.

2012

Stone & Webster

50%

Studebaker Packard Corp.,

111

Sunahing Buning

Switt&Co,

Osta

Textron Inc.

20%

No. 3 Aug.

Thlohal Chem.

34

No. 4 Aug.

102-103

Tide Water Assn. Qil

Spol rubber unbaked Blanket crepa No. 1 pale erape

100-1301% 101-10

Timo Inc.

for keeping running costs down!

Tel-Cont. Warrants

29

113-115

Twentieth Century Fox Film

37

Union Carbide

bulk cargo will raean that the

14324

LONDON

Usion of Cal

50

time spent in port loading and

Union PaciBe Ballway

United Aircraft

United Goa Corp.

1.B. Gyps

Closing prices all in pence per lb.: No. 1 Re spot ... Selement cese term:

Ost Doc.

Jan/March

April/June

July/Aug

Del/Doc.

United Fruit

V.B. Foll "B"

U.S. Line

UR. Rubber

carrying general rather than

Routes

THE Chairman of British

European Airways, Lord

331% duscharging will be as great 8 Douglas of Kirtioside, has

47

3541

3412-32%

GTA

304-30 2011 -2012 2014-201 2016-201

317%

0412

U.B. Smelting

UB. Steel

30132

US. Steel PC. PF ...

Warner Bros.....

Waukesha Motors

30-30

Westinghouse Air Brake Westinghouse Electric Western Union Tel. Co. West Va. Pulp & Paper Wir-Dixie Stores Woolworth K W)

J23

00

4011

421

UTI.

General markets, c.l.f. basis, ports:

Aug. Oct. Average price in U.S. at 14 designates spot markets. 31.98.Eatale crepe

thin Aug Total sales: 0,105 holes.

LIVERPOOL Closing prices all ln pence per

lb.:

10 Aug,

AMSTEÏDAM Closing prices all in guilders per kilogram, elf, Sept.

· American Contract

Oct/Nov: 21.35; July/Aug: 23,50;

No. 1 rubber No. 2 rubber Mar/Apr 21.35: Dec/Jan;112:

NG. DESET May/June: 1.2; July/Aug: 21.10:

No. 1 crepe Det./Now: 2130.

Alized Contrast

NEW YORK

Closing prices, all in cents per

Zine

Sept.

Sept.

Copper Rep.

11.01

11.95

Oct/Dec: 21.40———UPI,

July/Aur: 255; Oct/Nov: 21.40: Dro/Jan: 21.30; Mar/Apr: 21.30: May/June! 21.40; Jul/Aug:

21.40:

3

In

Sept. Oct.

101.70

101.75

LONDON

Closing prices, all in sterling

Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Company, had a net income of $40,016,000 in the six months per long lon: ended Juno 30.

Brition Petroleum Co.. L-87 share,

Ti spot This was equal to $3.70 per copper, spot

3-month

"a-month

ad.

Royal

Hurt#· T‡jď,

215-27/33.

Dutch

hell Transport

1.Reuter,

In the same period of last Lead t Petroleum-year, net income totalled $27,ine in half Aut Truly-143207,000 equal to $2.52 per share.

~China Mall Special.

Buben Bellera

703

701

RUBBER

NEW YORK

Rex rubber, futures closing prices, all in cents per lb:

Sept. Nov. JAU, March

#34%

July

Sept.

37.00

202 buyers

201 buyers

203 buyers

3.22 buyers

UFI

FOREIGN LXCHANGE

NEW YORK Ckaing rates: - Canadi Entrar oficiat *****

All others unchanged. LONDON

2.01

1.04 17/22

1/10

Closing rales: New York

2011/10-2013/16

Montreal

34.40

300 15/10-3.09 2/10 All others unchanged.HỰPE,"

with conventional ships, and this forecast that proposals for

will naturally restrict the pro- portion of the

snack"

time for which cut price "cold she is at sea. Indeed, unless the flights on European routes long will got "a mixed reception" voyage routes to reap the full from International airlines. advantage of her low running

"Savannah" is

put on

costs per mile, it is very doubt- ful whether the margin of im- provement will be at all con- siderable.

LONG WAY OFF

"But it is something that has to come In the very near future," he told at London Air- 18 port before leaving with family for a holiday in Majorca. The scheme would be put be- fore a meeting of the Interna- The day of large, fleets of nuclear-powered surface vessels tional Air Transport Association thus st seems a long way off, in September, he added.

The Bights, similar to present all the more so as tite large supertanker of over 100,000 tons, Trans-Atlantic Economy

which offered the best prospect vices would reduce U.S. Employment

Ser- menities

a higher seating in terms of bulk cargo, long but provido

capacity, Trauls and rapid turn-round, re

Lord Douglas said that cabin now much less in favour than at Washington, Aug. 11.

the time of the Suez crisis and laff were finding it increasing- Ty dimeult to serve full meals U.S. employment climbed to a panic for tonnage. record 67,394,000 la July, the

But it still remain true that with larger aircraft coming into Labour Department reported to-larger nuclear vessels ought to service.

"It is no good increasing the cabin staff," he added, "They

duy,

Unemployment

the ducin

4.

be cheaper to operate: reactors should decline in cost per ho. as

"Some frst-class services with month declined to 3,744,000 per- 120y expand In.stre and this will just get in each other's way,"

Help to spread the burden of the sna, n smaller than normal heavy capital costs, interest cas hot meal facilities and a full bar. drop.

which has to be met whether the would still operate."

BEA. hoped to reduce s The employment Agure was ship is in harbour or at sea.

The Americans have under fature costs by a new production whito up 252,000 from Jurie

slukly a design for a 40,000 ton drieu and higher mechanisation. War

"There will certainly be tanker with a boliing water reactor while they esilmato will axing of staff," Lord Douglas The figures did not reflect the cost no more then three-fifths said. "In fact we shall be fpk- steel strike which has filed 000,- of that itsed in the "Sovannah" ing no more staff as our busi- 000 workers in steel mills and and related industries.-UPI.

the unemployment figure down by 290,000.

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therefore nesi nilight reduce capital costs to no more Special.

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