Word: sulphureous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Power & Light 13,557 12,630 New York Central 77,428 35,981 P. Lorillard 1,336 3,614 Phoenix Hosiery 324 360D Pierce-Arrow 2,566 1,317 Public Service of New Jersey 29,544 30,163 St. Joseph Lead 9,730 4,076 Texas Gulf Sulphur 16,247 13,972 United Verde Extension 2,988 1,513D Western Dairy Products 1,401 1,124 D = Deficit. *Twelve months ending September...
...material out of dead is highly exciting. Basic material of all beings is protoplasm. Every body cell contains protoplasm, a gooey material like white of egg, one-fourth heavier than water. Protoplasm always contains at least twelve elements: calcium, carbon, chlorine, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, sulphur. The living combination of these is exceedingly complex. Best of chemists have been unable to decipher the protoplasmic interrelations. Could they do "so, they could make protoplasm in their laboratories...
Texas Gulf Sulphur...
...Twenty years ago, July 4 was ushered in with 18-in. cannoncrackers which sounded like quarry blasts. These, largest ever made. were constructed with a heavy cardboard case two-thirds filled with saltpetre, carbon and sulphur. In those days, long before and after July 4 fireworkmen were billed like vaudeville teams about the country, the wonders of pyrotechny were displayed to smalltown folk in parks and pastures. Greatest spectacle of these traveling companies was "The Last Days of Pompeii," a morality pageant on a 576-ft. canvas topped by a 70-ft. Vesuvius. Climax of the spectacle came when...
...until the 19th century did pyrotechny make big advances. Prior to this time saltpetre, carbon, sulphur made up the colorless displays. As various metal salts were discovered they were introduced to make colors in fireworks. Strontium and lithium salts give red: barium and copper, green; other copper salts blue. Last great advance was the discovery that magnesium and aluminum salts impart white brilliance to fireworks...