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...sulphur can be extracted from plentiful calcium sulphate (gypsum). Even ordinary rocks can be processed for their minerals. One hundred tons of an average igneous rock, e.g., granite, contain eight tons of aluminum, five tons of iron, 1,200 lbs. of titanium, 180 lbs. of manganese, 70 lbs. of chromium, etc. Dr. Brown believes that the time may come when rock is refined into 20 or 30 products. Rock reserves will last indefinitely, and only energy will be needed to exploit them...
...Australia almost every day, and sometimes three or four times a day, lottery barrels revolve with the roar of express trains. Flagged to a halt, the barrel is opened, and a distinguished guest with a chromium-plated "extractor" begins withdrawing white-numbered marbles that bring small fortunes to the holders of correspondingly numbered tickets. Even the bored lottery clerks buy tickets, as recently happened in Western Australia when Clerk Neil Watts, writing down the numbers as they were drawn, shouted, "Hey, that's me!" discovered that he had won a $6,750 jackpot...
Hard Drinking. Saloonkeeper Bilgray earned his fame by making the Tropic into a serious drinkingman's bar-an honest saloon that scorned chromium, jukeboxes and B-girls. Its sights and sounds were shiny brass, dark wood panels, man-to-man talk and softly whirling fans...
...crowds of West Germans circulating amidst the gleaming chromium and tingling scent of new leather at Frankfurt's 37th International Automobile Show last week, there was much to be proud of. Flashy B.M.W.'s and new models of such prewar favorites as the Mercedes showed plainly why the revived German automobile industry is gobbling up more and more (21.6%) of the world's export markets...
...because Ford wants to avoid a horsepower contest with other big cars, the exact figures are secret). Automatic transmission, power steering, power brakes and power windows are standard equipment; the sole optional feature is air conditioning. To preserve its elegant finish (two double coats of lacquer, triple-thickness chromium plating), each Continental will be shipped to the dealer in a fleece-lined canvas and plastic envelope...