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Hours later a teahouse-keeper on the mountaintop heard cries for help and called the detective. With only damp towels as protection against the sulphur fumes, Detective Tomosaburo Suzuki and seven police volunteers began the rescue. Roped together, choking and almost blinded by the fumes, they let themselves down some 600 feet to an outcropping of rock on the very edge of the crater. The rock had broken the young couple's fall. There, covered with blood and bruises, her ankle smashed, but still unromantically alive, lay the little waitress Setsumi. Beside her, uninjured, was her impulsive lover...
...MEXICAN SULPHUR will soon be flowing to world markets in quantity. Pan American Sulphur Co., biggest of three U.S. firms developing a huge sulphur discovery on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, has just completed a $7,000,000 plant, which will swing into full production next month at a capacity of 800,000 tons yearly. Pan American's proven sulphur reserve: 30 million tons...
DEPLETION-ALLOWANCE RATES on many minerals, including uranium, go up several percentage points. The top mine rate of 23%, formerly applied only to sulphur, will cover a wide range of minerals, from asbestos to zinc...
...geologists have learned to use bacteria as an aid to exploration, e.g., certain important layers of rock can be identified by the fossil microorganisms imbedded in the strata. Some of these are remains of bacteria that lived freakishly on iron or sulphur compounds; others, still living, get along on petroleum itself. Most common soils contain bacteria that can "eat" hydrocarbons; if oil is spilled on the soil, they multiply enthusiastically, and soon the oil disappears...
Furthermore, another normally dry gully (Sulphur Draw) flash-flooded the drought-stricken town of Lamesa. Said a survivor. Bible in hand: "The Lord sent the rain, and I don't hold it against Him." Floods from Sulphur Draw and hundreds of other roiling gullies roared into Devils River, the Pecos and other surging streams, which poured into the Rio Grande. The big, sleepy river, bone-dry in places, e.g., Laredo, a year ago, rose as much as a foot an hour, and trouble roared downstream...