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...Sulphur & Molasses. Ways and Means Chairman Mills has an additional reason for misgivings about Kennedy's plans. He wants to wrap tax reduction and tax reform in a single package, fearing that if Congress just cuts the rates, the opportunity for reform will be lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: The Great Consensus | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

...some wage earners to get away without paying any income tax at all. But, in practice, tax reform runs into formidable political obstacles: taxpayers who benefit from special provisions want to hold on to them. Mills is doubtless right in believing that the taxpayers will refuse to swallow the sulphur of reform unless it is mixed with the molasses of rate reduction-and even then there will be some bitter faces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: The Great Consensus | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

...heyday for scientists studying England's fogs, a unique compound of sulphur dioxide, chemical wastes, coal smoke, gasoline and diesel fumes. (The sulphur level alone last week reached 14 times the normal concentration.) The Ministry of Aviation had been waiting for just this chance to test its new blind-flying system for bad weather landings, rushed a plane in to touch down successfully at London Airport. For Washington's Dr. Richard Prindle, a U.S. Government air-pollution specialist, it was the opportunity of a decade. Rushing across the Atlantic, he was diverted to Frankfurt, arrived twelve hours late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: The Beautiful Cough | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

...Lieut. Commander Dwight G. Osborne, executive officer of the Pierce, and Lieut. Commander Kenneth C. Reynolds, the exec of the Kennedy, led the party aboard the ship. After politely serving his visitors coffee, the Greek captain allowed them the run of his ship. The cargo turned out to be sulphur, paper rolls, twelve trucks, and truck parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Showdown | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

...long steel lance is lowered through the top of the furnace, like a narrow straw into a thick-walled cream pot, and sprays compressed oxygen at supersonic speeds over the bubbling mix. With a roar that would drown out a brace of jet fighters, the oxygen burns off the sulphur, carbon and other impurities in the white mass. Because it takes barely half an hour to cook a batch of LD steel, v. eight hours in the conventional, open-hearth furnace, the oxygen process melts the costs of labor, power and fuel. Production costs are about $3 a ton lower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Austria: Steel's Magic Wand | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

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