"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
Completely agree , but, and I'll have to travel through the old balance sheets or budgets of NZ to find it
Maybe one day!
But the loans were made either before or during the think big
Lots of cheap Arab money was floating around back then ... Loan the money, cheaply,
Oil crisis , Arabs , imf , the banks whomever , raise the interest rates and badda Bing badda boom... We got ya
By the way off u follow our economic plan all will be well. Privatise everything , cause the market knows best ,and we can get our hands on those assets
Everything must make a profit
Oh and we would really look favourably upon you if you let us , you know , install our new five eyes , nuclear powered , computer in your lovely country
Oh and by the way we need to fly a few planes to the South Pole ...
There's a good country .....
As I said , very small fish in big ocean...
sent for a divine source
"Look, Madame, where we live, look how we live ... look at the life we have...The Republic has forgotten us."
Remember the synthetic petrol plant, first in the world. Previously the process had only worked in the lab, nobody had ever done it full size. Muldoon had it built at a cost of $17,000,000,000 IIRC. And I did see the gold embossed leather bound documents. Those dollars were a lot bigger than today's.
When it was finished we had a fully functioning plant that converted natural gas to methanol then converted the methanol to gasoline.
Then the oil price dropped. The Govt panicked and almost paid Fletcher's (?) to take it of their hands. After a brief period it was onsold to Methanex, a Canadian company, who export something approaching 2,500,000 tons of methanol a year.
The methanol to gasoline part of the plant was cut up and sold for scrap.
Think big? Big fuck up.
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop
I missed out on Think Big Projects, I was working for the Post Office at $7.00 PH...then left to join private enterprise, in less than 2 years the rates were up to $10.00 an hour as Think Big had sucked all the tradies in.
My mate made a goodly amount of money at Marsden Pt and Glenbrook....and ' invested' it in the stock market.
Chase Corporation and the like...lost the lot. Easy come easy go he said.
DeMyer's Laws - an argument that consists primarily of rambling quotes isn't worth bothering with.
I didn't think!!! I experimented!!!
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