Word: sulphured
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Texas Gulf Sulphur...
...algae. Declared they: "It is probably safe to say that it is more widely distributed in Nature than any known physiologically potent substance." Data so far accumulated indicates that pantothenic acid's molecule is composed of long chains of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, that it contains no sulphur or nitrogen. The stuff is potent. A speck of Professor Williams' latest pantothenic acid, extracted from liver, speeds the growth of yeast in 250 gal. of liquid...
...wild" rubber (collected from virgin forests), putrefaction produces a disgusting smell. But most U. S. rubber comes from man-arranged plantations. Plantation rubber gets its smell from the sulphur or nitrogenous accelerators required to cure the rubber for commercial use. The Rubber Growers' chemists, H. P. Stevens and E. J. Parry, have been unable to find substitute accelerators as good as the smelly ones. On the other hand they found that zinc carbonate added during the manufacturing process reduced smells to a minimum, and very simply. More complicated and costly is the purification of the latex (the original rubber...
...long 180,000 tons of rubber, 700,000 tons of sugar, smaller amounts of cottonseed oil, flaxseed, silk, sulphur, lard and 3,168,000,000 eggs...
...Francis Xavier Shields: the Mason & Dixon tennis championship; by beating Clifford Sutter in the semifinals. Gregory Mangin in the final, 10-8, 4-6, 6-0, 6-2; at White Sulphur Springs...