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...European producers of sulphur :-a vital Canadian import because it is used in the Dominion's big pulp industry -rigged the sulphur market to enable...
...consumption continues at the prewar level, U.S. reserves of sulphur will be exhausted in 55 years; zinc in 19 years; gold in 14 years; silver in eleven years...
Bigger, better and costlier memoirs were on the way. With General Wainwright at Ashford General Hospital, White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., last week was Hearst's ace story fixer, Bob Considine, who put together Captain Ted Lawson's Thirty Seconds over Tokyo. Beginning Oct. 7, the Wainwright story will be syndicated in 42 installments (to some 250 newspapers) by King Features, which is paying the General a reported $155,000-the equivalent (before taxes) of 19 years' base...
...Bataan, described Captain Tokoda's medieval brews. Into tubercular men he injected an acid mixed with infected bile. Once he squeezed a milk of ground soy beans into the jugular veins of two men. All died. Into the bloodstreams of others he injected mixtures of castor oil and sulphur, of acid, ether and blood plasma. Despite all this, Shinagawa was regarded as a "showplace" and was proudly exhibited to visiting Jap generals...
...their drama, the air strikes on Tokyo were incidental. They were designed to isolate the battlefield, to pin the Japs' home-based aircraft to the ground, while more Navy plans unfolded at Iwo Jima-also known as Sulphur Island...