Word: sulphureous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Chemical Society at Akron to describe the following experiment: By catalytic polymerization of acetylene they had produced mono-vinylacetylene. This they had treated with hydrogen chloride to obtain chloroprene. Polymerization of the chloroprene had resulted in a sub stance similar to the product obtained by vulcanizing rubber with sulphur. Stopping the polymerization at an intermediate point gave them ? Rubber. In short, they had produced synthetic rubber from acet ylene (product of coal and limestone), salt and water. While the rubber chem ists cheered, the three young du Ponters ? W. H. Carothers, F. B. Downing, Ira Williams...
...similar $6 per car increase on crude phosphate rock, sulphur, pig & scrap iron, stone, crude oil, asphalt...
...stunt, ground their cameras busily. As the Los Angeles climbed above the smoke screen and headed for home, the white vapor continued to drift lower and lower until mild panic occurred in the streets. A man riding atop a Fifth Avenue bus began to gasp and cough. He shouted "Sulphur!" and led a stampede of passengers down the stairs. Motorists complained to police that particles of the smoke had burned tiny holes in the tops of their automobiles. Scared pedestrians felt stinging sensations in their faces & hands, found their clothing dotted with acid burns...
...Guilty," mumbled the porcine racketeer. Having thus made himself liable to 34 years imprisonment and $90,000 in fines arising from charges brought during the previous fortnight (TIME, June 15, 22), Public Enemy Capone ("Snorkey" to his cronies), attired in a sulphur- colored suit, was hurried off to the freight elevator remarking that he "hoped everybody was satisfied...
...McGraw-Hill Publishing 534 372 Montgomery Ward 2,318 D 1,783 D National Biscuit 4,665 4,840 National Cash Register 912 373 D Otis Steel 634 20 Packard Motor Car 2,654 113 du Pont 17,347 12,656 Studebaker 1,343 809 Texas Gulf Sulphur 3,803 2,448 Westinghouse Electric 4,546 2,885D White Rock 257 2,885D