Word: sulfured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...synthetic insecticides, one of the most promising is phenothiazine, which is made from a coal-tar derivative and sulfur. This chemical is deadly to the codling moth which costs U.S. applegrowers nearly $18,000,000 a year. Early failures in field tests with phenothiazine were found to be due to the size of the particles. They were too big. Later tests with more finely ground phenothiazine turned out much better...
...badly sunburned researcher, Ralph Robertson Mellon of Pittsburgh (no kin), remembered the soothing effects of natural sulfur waters, tried Hydrosulphosol, a drug made of powdered sulfur and water, as a substitute. So pleased was he that he started experiments on real burns...
...spite of its name, it is no kin to the complex, miracle-working sulfonamide drugs, which contain sulfur, ammonia, benzene...
...people of the Sugar Bowl and the oil and sulfur wells, there was little meaning in an article about the influence of Danish Philosopher Spren Kierkegaard and Swiss Theologian Karl Barth on the novels of neurotic Czech Author Franz Kafka. What could the busy people of the Delta make of this stanza by Andrew Chiappe...
...Steel's net earnings (in terms of total capital investment) jumped from 5.2% in 1915 to 24.9% in 1917; some of the smaller steel companies made more than 300%; a sulfur company made 236%; the eleven big meat packers, in the three years 1915-1917, made total profits of $140,000,000-just $121,000,000 more than profits...