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Deep in the earth's crust along the Gulf of Mexico are huge knobs of pure salt. In the tortured strata around these salt domes are often found fabulous pools of petroleum and the world's richest sulphur deposits. Water heated under pressure to 330° is forced into sulphur wells. This melts the brimstone, which is then pumped out. Two companies control substantially the entire U. S. sulphur production and the price for years has been $18 per ton- no more, no less. The companies are Texas Sulphur, which accounts for two-thirds of the production...
...from the north and the southern warm air. Following the path usually taken by such pressure areas, the cyclone passed over Georgia resulting in much damage of property and loss of life. Travelling up the coast, the gale collected moisture from the ocean. This vapor rose into the upper strata of the air and congealed there, at a temperature of 30 or 50 degrees below zero...
...laboratory in the building a transmitter will be set up as an experiment, which will give tone signals for ten minutes every hour. Ordinarily this apparatus is used for short distances only, but it is hoped that the sound may be deflected by certain strata in the high atmosphere and thus by following a series of taugents to the globe, reach the south polar region. If the expedition succeeds in picking up these signals it is possible that direct communication by voice may be established for a short period each day. For the present, aerial broadcasts will be sent...
Cases were so radically distributed in social strata (a nun, a baker, a one-day-old child, a medical student), in type of employment and geographical location that both contagion and food-poisoning seemed ruled...
...TIME lowering her moral standard? Is TIME losing its sense of decency? Or, is TIME just catering to that lower strata of society who delights only in cheap, vulgar outpourings of our two-by-four-simmering-gas-pot, political braggarts...