Word: sulfured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reclaiming plants the scrap is first sheared and hashed into tiny pieces.It is then sifted past magnets, which draw out any bits of iron. Next it is dumped into a "digester" tank where 1) caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) is added to destroy all cloth fibers and to remove free sulfur (added originally in vulcanizing); 2) coal-tar oils are added to soften the rubber. These added chemicals and decomposed fibers are rinsed out in water sprays and settling tanks. At last the rubber is squeezed into heavy sheets and baled for reprocessing...
...made of relatively abundant materials: 1) caustic soda (sodium hydroxide), 2) sulfur, 3) chlorine, 4) ethylene (a gas sometimes used as an anesthetic...
Thiokol advocates were sure that big-scale production could begin at once. Said jubilant President Willard Dow of Dow Chemical Co.: "The caustic soda we shall derive from salt. Texas alone can supply all the sulfur we shall ever need. Chlorine at present is being allocated, but we can step up production to meet all requirements. Ethylene we can get from oil or from corn, wheat or any other agricultural waste or surplus by first converting it into alcohol...
...cloakrooms of Congress the cigar smoke last week was slightly tinged with sulfur. Congressmen, nerve-frayed and work-weary, were hopping mad at the press for "pouring it on," for attacking good and bad members indiscriminately, the fatheads with the intelligent, the timeservers with the conscientious...
...During the past 23 years, William Koch, a discredited M.D., and his brother Louis have widely marketed from their Koch Laboratories a phony synthetic "antitoxin" for cancer called Glyoxylide. They claimed it was made from fatty sulfur compounds, sold it for prices ranging from $25 to $300 a thimbleful. Since cancer is not caused by bacteria but is an anarchy of the body's own cells, a cancer antitoxin is a contradiction in terms. Last week the Koch Bros, were arrested for violating the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. Their brew was found watery. Said Assistant U.S. Attorney...