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there on Sunday and then we can all try it.
An R.A.F. brass hat, and his adjutant, were there for lunch too. The
former had his wife with hims, which made me very envious and
also made me feel a shade Bolshy. She manages to hang on
here by means of having some phoney job in the censorship.
She was dim and dull, thin, tall, and had maroon finger
nails and cotton pants down to the knees! But it was all
very interesting - at the DEad Sea, there is a place called
the Dead Sea [Polash] Co Ltd. The Samuel's had borrowed
the managing director's bungalow for a vacation and we were
all shown over this works. The thing is that the Dead Sea
water is rich in potassiumn phosphate, chich is used as a fertiliser
and magnesium chloride, which is used in textile finishing -
sodium chloride, which is common salt - bromine, which
is vaery valuatble. This was mainly used by the [?] period
people, to make their petrol red and more efficient - and
then, to muster there valuable salts. And this is done
in a very large works, which is a mass of pipes and tanks
and mixes, and stirrers and so on. This ia all done very
ingeniously by means of filtering and settling, and screening
and precipitation and son on. The result is that, eventually
is produced all these things in perfect and pure
form. It's all rather wonderful and miraculous really, and so
much moreso when you consider thatall you have is a
lake - and from the water is produced tons & tons & tons
of these things, which are put into bags and sent all
over the world. We had a very pleasant lunch,