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...novices in the sulphur business, learning it from scratch, the young partners knew enough to see that Freeport's resources were alarmingly low. They set out to find new sulphur beds, by the mid-30s had put the company squarely on its feet again with Louisiana's Grand Ecaille, Freeport's biggest mine, built the whole town of Port Sulphur (1950 pop. 2,250) to house the workers and ship the sulphur. Watery Mine. To get the brimstone out of the ground at Garden Island, Freeport plans to build a $10 to $15 million plant. Garden Island...
...scarce materials, and credit restrictions will be lifted since the houses will sell for less than $12,000. The Levitts have bought 2,500 acres (average price: $1,100 an acre). They will break ground for Levittown, Pa. in two months, and will put up a complete community from scratch with the usual Levitt trademarks: swimming pools, a town hall, athletic fields, parks, playgrounds, schools and shopping centers...
...Bennett, from simmons agrees. "Harvard wasn't exactly foreign territory to me," she smiles, "I know some boys at the Business School who told me to come over and scratch the ivy on these walls. So I scratched and learned...
...Tolstoy and heard that vigorous sage (who had just lost a son) shouting defiantly to the winds: "There is no death, there is no death!" But with Chekhov, Bunin was more of an intimate contemporary. They conducted the sort of dialogue that used to make men of other nations scratch their heads in wonder at the odd Russian mind. "Do you like the sea?" Bunin asked. "Yes," said Chekhov. "Only it's so empty...
...kids, report the adults, really get into the news-to sniff, chew, scratch and crumple. Some are careful cover-to-cover "readers," while others digest only a few pages. One tot, we were informed, is not happy with anything but the current issue...