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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...
Some of that gap has already been plugged by other combines. In 1964, London's Midland Bank joined the Commercial Bank of Australia, the Standard Bank of London and the Toronto-Dominion Bank to create the Midland and International Banks Ltd. (capital: $56 million). Three months ago, Britain's Barclays Bank, the Bank of America, Italy's Banca del Lavoro, Germany's Dresdner Bank, Algemene Bank of The Netherlands and Banque Nationale de Paris formed Société Financière Européenne (capital: $7,800,000), with head offices in Paris and Luxembourg...
...commercials, Chickenman was hatched 16 months ago on Chicago's WCFL. He is an ineffectual superhero, like television's Captain Nice and Mr. Terrific. Unlike them, Chickenman is genuinely witty. His real name is Benton Harbor, and his game is selling women's shoes in the Midland City department store, so he is available to fight "crime and/or evil" weekends only. "I don't want to be bugged at the store," he keeps having to remind the police commissioner...
Bennett was a child of the Midland slums, the son of a domineering and ambitious pawnbroker father who eventually became a fairly prosperous solicitor. Handicapped by a stammer that in childhood made him jerk epileptically and bite the air, he grew up painfully shy and covered his shyness with the show-off's mantle. He was as frugal as a ragpicker, carefully kept a record of each shilling tip, constantly worried about money...
Worthington Foods Inc. takes edible soybean fiber produced by Ralston Purina, turns it into meatless frankfurters, roast beef and fried chicken, sells them to Seventh-day Adventists and vegetarians. Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. is testing a soy beverage to be sold in powder form, and Central Soya has developed an ice cream-like frozen dessert made of soybeans...