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Mining. Phelps Dodge, No. 2 domestic copper producer (after Kennecott), came put 11% ahead of its 1952 marks, both in sales and in earnings of $39 million. Freeport Sulphur piled up the highest sales, $38 million, and profits, $8.5 million, in its history...
...first few days in Trumbull Park were without incident. Then, one Wednesday night as 25-year-old Don Howard sat with his son and daughter in the living room, a paving block crashed through the front window. That was the beginning. In the following weeks, more windows were smashed; sulphur stink bombs were hurled into the apartment; effigies of Negroes blazed on street corners; two neighborhood stores which sold to Negro customers were set afire; scores of fires have been set on the property of whites who refused to join the campaign to force the Negroes out; ten ugly crowds...
...Repair and modernize Iran's corroded catalytic crackers, sulphur-coated pipelines, neglected transport. Probable cost: $200 million...
...work more closely with colleges on business' needs. As Robert R. Young pointed out at a White Sulphur Springs conference of businessmen and educators, industry and education have a clear mutuality of interest...
...hill of Champel, just outside the city of Geneva, a man was made ready for burning. A crown of straw and leaves sprinkled with sulphur was placed on his head, and a thick rope was wound around his neck. He was chained to a stake and a pile of fresh wood lay at his feet. A book of his own authorship, called The Restoration of Christianity, was bound to his arm. When the executioner waved the torch before his face, he cried out: "O Jesus. Son of the Eternal God, have pity on me." Then the faggots were...