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...instance, is building two monuments. A national monument in the shape of a 300-ft. obelisk is going up across from Sukarno's palace. Also in construction is a 120-ft. West Irian monument memorializing the recent diplomatic conquest of Dutch New Guinea. Designed by the Big Builder himself, the West Irian monument is topped by a 30-ft. bronze man breaking out of his chains. Meanwhile government spending on social welfare has dropped from $6,000,000 in 1956 to $1,373,000 last year-hardly a monument...
...factors offer their clients are some times more valuable than money. Factors keep teams of experts checking on both their clients and their clients' customers, feed their clients a steady stream of advice and business tips. In one recent maneuver, Textile Banking Co. lent $400,000 to a builder so he could buy carpeting from a manufacturer for which T.B.C. is the factor...
Named for a rock outcrop in the New South Wales back country where it began mining a treasure-trove of silver, lead and zinc in 1885, B.H.P. turned to steelmaking in the early 1900s. Led by the late Essington Lewis, a single-minded empire builder who made himself Australia's "Mr. Steel," the company doggedly pursued efficiency, threw up new plants, cornered rich ore and coal reserves, and by 1935 had gobbled up its only major competitor. But it was the pell-mell postwar growth of heavy industry and construction in Australia that gave B.H.P. its biggest forward push...
Died. Sir Eric Vansittart Bowater, 67, British builder of a $600,000.000 pulp and paper empire that began with a small family paper company, eventually became one of the world's largest producers of newsprint, with pulp mills from Sweden to South Carolina; in West Horsley, Surrey...
Died. Mary Gibbs Jones, 90, widow of Texas builder (and onetime Commerce Secretary) Jesse H. Jones, who helped her husband give away his construction millions, organizing with him the $500 million Houston Endowment Inc. that helps support Rice University, while setting up scholarships in her name in 44 colleges, seminaries, and universities; of a heart attack; in Houston...