Word: potash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Natural gas is also a prime source of anhydrous ammonia, the key ingredient in nitrogen fertilizers. Because of its vast natural gas reserves-and its generous sources of phosphate, potash and other plant foods-the U.S. is the world's prime supplier of fertilizer. About 10% of the U.S. output is exported, mostly to developing nations that need more food for their rapidly expanding populations-Korea, Mexico, India and Chile...
...Moab, Utah, an unexplained explosion trapped 25 men 2,700 ft. deep in one of the world's biggest potash mines. Seven workers built a barricade of tubing and burlap to trap pockets of fresh air for themselves while rescuers gingerly worked their way down into the shaft. The seven were saved-but 18 others perished...
With the help of a $25 million loan from the World Bank and a $10 million loan from the Bank of America, Israel is building 28 miles of dikes through the Dead Sea's waters to raise potash production to 600,000 tons yearly, thus making Israel one of the world's largest potash producers. It is pushing production of bromides and bromine, already ranks as one of the world's top five producers. Natural gas fields, recently discovered in the area, are being tapped and phosphate production sharply increased with loans from the Export-Import Bank...
...with the help of $573 million in aid, mostly from the U.S. and Britain. Per capita income among Hussein's 1,800,000 subjects has doubled to $168 in the same period. Factories are being built almost as fast as Bedouins pitch tents, turning out practically everything from potash byproducts on the Dead Sea to Surf detergent near Amman. Thanks to a gigantic natural hothouse in the Jordan River valley, 65 miles long and as much as ft. below sea level, Jordan is now the region's biggest exporter of vegetables. Irrigation experts are siphoning water from...
Paint & Precedent. The other suit involved Du Pont and American Potash & Chemical Corp.. both of which have undertaken to produce titanium dioxide for paint pigments in new California plants. Recently, after helping design the Du Pont plant, Chemical Engineer Donald E. Hirsch, 38, a Du Pont employee for twelve years, was hired away by American Potash, whose plant is not yet completed. Du Pont pleaded that it had spent $15 million developing the process, and argued that Hirsch could not work for a competitor without giving away Du Pont secrets. American Potash insisted it had already acquired the knowledge...