Word: sulphureous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Deep in the earth's crust along the Gulf of Mexico are huge knobs of pure salt. In the tortured strata around these salt domes are often found fabulous pools of petroleum and the world's richest sulphur deposits. Water heated under pressure to 330° is forced into sulphur wells. This melts the brimstone, which is then pumped out. Two companies control substantially the entire U. S. sulphur production and the price for years has been $18 per ton- no more, no less. The companies are Texas Sulphur, which accounts for two-thirds of the production...
...Jose Megia, 13, running out from family dinner to peer skyward. He saw an arrow of dense smoke headed straight for his house. He screamed. Father Megia ran out, was bowled over by a powerful down-thrust of air. Mother Megia ran out, dragging a mattress. Jose Megia smelled sulphur, heard one sharp detonation, saw his home burn up. Patiently the Megia family sat down on the mattress...
...reached the age of 74 on a constant diet of fine liquor and rich food, and who, in retrospect, regretted nothing save the bad wines he had drunk. "Sparkling Lacrima Cristi. . . suggested ginger beer alternately stirred up with a stick of chocolate and a large sulphur match." George Saintsbury's "Notes on a Cellar Book" suggests fine old port, beautiful and savory in its cut-glass goblet, warming and exhilarating in its proper home...
...March 1915, George Busby Christian Jr., 42, was general sales manager of White Sulphur Stone Co. of Marion. Ohio. That year marked a hegira of Ohio Republicans to Washington, D. C. Harry Micajah Daugherty, a rising power in Ohio politics, was just sending a Marion publisher named Warren G. Harding to Washington as Senator...
...same areas. Last week, when it could also report progress on a cure, the Department explained what was ailing the cattle. It was not alkali disease, said the Department, but selenium poisoning. Selenium is the light-sensitive substance used in photoelectric cells, and is closely related chemically to sulphur. From selenium compounds discovered in the soil of the affected districts, wheat and other plants absorb the poisonous element. The Department's investigators found that if sulphur-harmless alike to plant and consumer-were added to the soil, the plants would absorb that instead of the selenium. Last week...