The familiar Dead Sea is coming to life in an industrial sense. The great chemical industry springing up on its shores is now producing some 25,000 tons of potash every year, with a prospect of expansion to 100,000 tons. Bromine, entering the sea from the iiot springs of Herod's Bath, is being sxtractcd at the rate of 1000 tons a year.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 140, 15 June 1936, Page 5
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