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...come from a single mine at Climax, Colo.; the U.S. produces 90% of the world's high-grade sulphur, is the largest producer of copper, exports more cotton than any other country. But in other materials, notably metals like tungsten and cobalt, the U.S. is a comparatively big user and small producer...
...Waterloo Station. There, where bombed-out slums once sprawled, they could goggle at the vast "Dome of Discovery," with its 74-inch-lens telescope, at the "Telekinema" with its three-dimensional sound pictures, and the "Eccentrics' Corner" featuring, among other achievements, a hammer guaranteed not to hit the user's thumb. Still in store for visitors this summer: a series of industrial exhibitions, midways, art exhibits, concerts, carnivals and conventions in more than 1,700 British cities and towns...
Cheap & Pure. Like many another sulphur user, Britain relied on the deposits in Texas and Louisiana for 90% of its supply. While it lasted, no one could match U.S. brimstone in price or purity. Sulphur from pyrites deposits was largely ignored, since brimstone is cheaper and easier to use. But as demand for sulphur rose to more than 150% of the peak war years, the rich Gulf coast brimstone deposits began to run out. Reserves above ground shrank from an 18 months' supply to a scant six months...
Fatal Potion. As late as Tannhäuser (1845), Hanslick considered Wagner "the greatest dramatic talent among all contemporary composers." But with Lohengrin, and Wagner's pronouncements about his "music of the future," Hanslick became disenchanted. He could not stomach Wagner's "exclusion of the purely human factor in favor of gods, giants, dwarfs, and their various magic arts." To Hanslick, drama should "present us with real characters, persons of flesh and blood, whose fate is determined by their own passions and decisions." He complained that even in Tristan the two principal characters are "governed by a chemical...
When it comes to steel, New England thinks it is the stepchild of U.S. industry. Although it is a big steel user, it has never had a fully integrated mill of its own. Last week, after almost five years of planning, the New England Steel Development Corp. announced that it would build a $250 million steel mill with an annual capacity of 1,000,000 tons...