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...deposits at Perm were accidentally discovered. Three years ago Professor Preobrajenski found in the Perm district what are now considered the world's largest deposits of potash, thus shattered the Franco-German potash monopoly. While digging for potash, drillers were pleasantly surprised to strike oil as well. U. S. petroleum is used chiefly in the form of gasoline; in Russia (with only 21,000 automobiles) the oil will be used mainly as fuel. Perm oil will turn many a wheel in the Ural industrial region, now dependent upon coal which must be transported some 1,200 miles...
...decline in tin prices for the British. Paper (newsprint) and copper were the Canadian products that chiefly swelled Canada's income. General was the decline in U. S. imports from Europe and Asia; general was the increase from South America. Germany showed the only major European increase, selling potash, sulphate of ammonia, hides, gloves and sulphite pulp in large quantities. Greece and Italy suffered from a decline in tobacco imports, France from decreases in silk and olive oil. The rise in coffee imports assured increased purchases from Brazil, Columbia and Venezuela, the two last also adding to their crude...
...opened without fanfare but to unanimous approval for its quiet and amusing story-that of a girl who, for the sake of getting things to write about, got herself a lover, and of the lover who regarded his good fortune as a grand passion. Alexander Carr, onetime half of "Potash and Perlmutter," gargled glib dialect as a Hebrew theatrical producer who instigated and later encouraged the literary liaison. Mary Carroll was the girl...
With authentic enthusiasm Counselor Cahill writes: "France has become the greatest iron ore country in Europe; she has acquired potash concessions far in excess of her consumption; compared with 1923, she has increased her coal output by one-sixth, doubled her coke output and more than trebled her electrical capacity...
Scientists in some cases have been able to offset such monopolies by substitutes?nitrates from atmospheric nitrogen, rubber from carbohydrates, camphor from coal tar, coffee (Postum) from barley and wheats. There are no substitutes for potash or iodine. Yet chemists are already getting a little potash from the U. S. low-grade deposits along the Mexican border, iodine from seaweed and kelp...