Word: sulphur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result of the decision, businessmen could descry trouble ahead for dozens of big and little U.S. companies. Sears, Roebuck & Co. owns big blocks of stock in such suppliers as Whirlpool-Seeger Corp., Florence Stove Co., and Armstrong Tire & Rubber Co.; Gulf Oil has a 12% interest in Texas Gulf Sulphur, which supplies Gulf with sulphur; Olin Mathieson Chemical has 25.8% of Marquardt Aircraft and 50% of rocketmaker Reaction Motors, for which it is helping develop rocket fuel. And by successfully going back 30 years to trip Du Pont, trustbusters had won the right to try any company for things...
...leading prophet and pressagent. Like all Miller's books, this one contains great jambalayas of jiggery-pokery about everything under the midnight sun, from atomic stockpiling (anti) to Zulus (pro). But the early passages about Miller at Big Sur-wuffling away at the wild waves, sitting in hot sulphur baths, dragging his groceries a mile and a half in a cart-are attractive to anyone with a notion to get away from it all. Unfortunately, into all such private Edens some pilgrims must come, and the Miller reader knows with a sinking heart that each will be a genius...
Died. Ned Sparks (real name: Edward A. Sparkman), 73, sulphur-voiced, sourpuss cynicomedian (Lady for a Day, Imitation of Life), who once asked Lloyd's of London for $100,000 insurance against having a picture taken of him grinning ("I didn't get this wooden face by accident. It's been my trademark, and it's paid me well"); of an intestinal block; in Victorville, Calif...
Last year in Iraq, A.D.L. acted as ICA's agent in drawing up an exhaustive blueprint for industrialization. Iraq is now reclaiming sulphur from abundant natural gas, making paper from reeds, building a date-sugar plant to use its huge date surplus. A gas pipeline is being laid; new plants to make rayon, fertilizer and steel are rising; the nation's industrial bank is being reorganized...
...prescribe special face lotions plus shampoos for the unproved relationship between dandruff and acne. Some cases can be cured, says Dr. MacKenna, by moderate restriction of sugars and starches, elimination of chocolate and cocoa in any form, from the diet, and nightly application of a paste containing 6% sulphur, 6% resorcin and 35% zinc oxide. Only those blackheads which can be squeezed out easily should be removed-every five days...