There were traces of gold about, of course, and furnaces to heat up to two thousand degrees and so forth, but after all Goldfinger was a jeweller and a smelter in a small way, and all this was perfectly above-board. Mark you, he may have been tipped off by his bank manager or someone, but that factory was entirely devoted to designing a cheap alloy for jewellers' findings - trying out unusual metals like aluminium and tin instead of the usual copper and nickel and palladium that are used in gold alloys. Come in." Mr Goldfinger positively welcomed them. Of those at least five hundred, including my little outfit, are engaged in controlling the illicit movements of valuta, the attempts to smuggle or to evade the Exchange Control Regulations.' We employ three thousand staff at the Bank, Mr Bond, and of those no less than one thousand work in the exchange control department. Well, to begin with, and taking only England and the sterling area, it's a very big business indeed. How ever' - Colonel Smithers waved these minor irritations aside - 'as you say, time to get on to the smuggling. As if I hadn't got enough to do with the annual gymkhana coming on. I've just had the women's hockey team thrown into my lap. Sports and welfare are becoming almost too much of a fetish at the Bank. The old ones were the most beautiful money in the world.'Ĭolonel Smithers took out a handkerchief and mopped his forehead. They look like any other country's money. Bond said, 'I'm not very impressed by the new ones.
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