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Other sources also seem promising. Increasing amounts of sulfur are being reclaimed from "sour" natural-gas pools in Canada and in France. Elcor Chemical Corp. of Midland, Texas, has hopes of gleaning sulfur from gypsum. And the U.S. Bureau of Mines, Monsanto Co. and others are hard at work to find ways of turning the old fire-and-brimstone villain into a new hero. Those pollutants that belch forth from factory smokestacks can, they insist, be scrubbed to yield a surprising amount of salable sulfur...
...industrial giants seeking new fields to conquer in the '60s have been tempted by the backward and fragmented housing industry. Most of them -including Alcoa, Union Carbide, Humble Oil, Reynolds Metals and General Electric-have found the resulting problems formidable and the profits elusive. Among others, National Gypsum, Certainteed and Sunset International Petroleum have retreated with bruises from construction ventures. But not ebullient Boise Cascade Corp., the Idaho-based paper, timber and building products maker. Having spread successfully into prefabricated homes and conventional housebuilding, the company last week moved into the land-development business as well...
...hammering of the world's largest nickel mine and smelter. In the Alberta foothills northwest of Edmonton, the ring of sledge hammer on steel counterpointed the polyglot curses of Portuguese, Greek and Italian gandy dancers, pushing the Alberta Resources Railway 111 miles north to the coal and gypsum deposits of the Peace River country...
...Working by night as a boiler fireman for the city's Sanitation Department to support his wife and two teen-age sons, he customarily cuts his sleep to five or six hours to spend more of his day struggling to get people on his block to "participate." Says Gypsum's Obey: "If Paige can keep these people together, we'll be all right...
Measured against New York City's vast slums and near slums-337,949 tenement apartments built before 1901 and another 825,536 almost that obsolete-the East 102nd Street project looks tiny. U.S. Gypsum views it as a wedge into a $30 billion market in rehabilitating slums across the nation. "We saw possibilities of opening up a market that is completely dormant," says Gypsum's market-programs manager, Jerry Pintoff. "Somebody had to step in and hope to create what wasn't there." ^ With Profits. Whether or not U.S. Gypsum's initiative will inspire more...