![]() Bond knew the voice well, the voice of the first-class Civil Servant. ![]() It said that he knew most things connected with that line and that he could make a good guess at all the rest. It was the voice of the specialist in a particular line of law enforcement. 'All right.' Colonel Smithers now talked in the soft, tired voice of an overworked man in the service of his Government. Perhaps they'll find a way of mining gold. They're already mining oil under the sea. ![]() Perhaps the position isn't as bad as you think. He said, 'You certainly make a fascinating story of it. We have to make sure the Factory Acts are being observed for safety and health."īond, smothered by this cataract of gold history, found no difficulty in looking as grave as Colonel Smithers. "Sorry, sir, routine inspection for the Small Engineering Section of the Ministry of Labour. We dressed a couple of the Gold Squad up and sent them down to knock on the door of Mr Goldfinger's factory at Reculver. Figures showed the natural progress of a well-run jewellery business. Income tax and super tax paid promptly each year. Twenty thousand pounds at Barclays in Ramsgate. Had a quiet look at his bank balance and tax returns. But could we pin it on him? We could not. Goldfinger had been refining down his old gold, precipitating it into this brown powder and shipping it to India as fertilizer. These gave all the cargoes as mineral dust base for crop fertilizers - all perfectly credible because these modern fertilizers do use traces of various minerals in their make-up. 'The usual nosey parker in the salvage firm gossiped to one of the Dover Customs men and in due course a report filtered up through the police and the CID to me, together with a copy of the cargo clearance papers for each of Goldfinger's trips to India. 'You could get a small premium in most countries -Switzerland, for instance-but it wouldn't be worth your while. The Gold Squad retired discomfited, our legal department decided the brown dust in the trawler's timbers was not enough to prosecute on without supporting evidence, and that was more or less that, except' - Colonel Smithers slowly wagged the stem of his pipe -'that I kept the file open and started sniffing around the banks of the world.' 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. In the award winning indie film La Cucina (2007), he plays Chris, opposite Leisha Hailey."Come in. He also has a brief role in the film Star Trek (2009) as a Starfleet Academy trainee. Since then, he has appeared in the films Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Legally Blonde (2001) as “Dorky David,” Not Another Teen Movie (also 2001) and Secretary (2002), and in episodes of Alias and other television shows. Perkins’ first acting role was in Psycho II (1983), in which he briefly appeared as the twelve-year-old version of the Norman Bates character his father portrayed. He married Sidney Perkins in 1999 and together they had two children. His mother, actress Berry Berenson, was killed during the September 11th attacks. His younger brother is musician Elvis Perkins. Osgood Robert “Oz” Perkins II (born February 2, 1974) is an American actor, screenwriter, and director. According to Astrologers, Oz Perkins's zodiac sign is Aquarius. American actor known for his roles in the 1993 film Six Degrees of Separation, the 2001 comedy Legally Blonde, and the 2009 revival of Star Trek. ![]() Oz Perkins is a famous Movie Actor, who was born on Februin United States.
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