Word: sulphureous
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...Child of the Mountains. At White Sulphur Springs, where he spent a weekend as guest of Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, Nehru explained some things he had learned. At a brilliant dinner (among the guests: Banker Winthrop Aldrich, Railroader Robert Young, Publisher Eugene Meyer), Johnson introduced Nehru as "a man of rare truth." Nehru rose to speak, as usual seeming only to be thinking out loud. "I am a child of the mountains . . ." he said. "Sometimes you are on the mountaintops and can see the fields and the sun. Then, often enough, you are in the valley...
...Among them: Freeport Sulphur which, with profits up 42%, raised its dividend to $1.25; Texas Co., Budd Co., Standard Brands...
...buildings in Corn Products' $20 million sorghum processing plant, which was getting into full production last week, have no walls; some have no roofs either. Typical are the millhouse and the "steep house," in which grain is placed in large wooden tanks for treatment in a dilute sulphuric acid solution. The sea breeze keeps the steep house clear of choking sulphur fumes. The breeze also sweeps clean the floor under the silo conveyor belt, usually a collection spot for explosive dust...
Soft & Low. This unremitting little mountain warfare was disturbed last week by a new voice from White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. It was soft and low, but it was the voice of John L. Lewis. He had a message for "the able Mr. Green." Making no mention of his own many troubles (his 385,000 striking coal diggers are making little headway), John L. proposed that the A.F.L. join with him to help Phil Murray's C.I.O. fight against "the giant adversaries which would decimate one by one the major units of organized labor...
...packed 3½ weeks' schedule, Nehru would speed from Washington to San Francisco, look in at New York and other cities, speak at the universities of Chicago, California and Wisconsin, inspect farms and factories, Mount Vernon, Hyde Park, the National Gallery of Art, TVA and White Sulphur Springs. The big emphasis would be on getting him acquainted with the productive panorama of U.S. life...