Word: sulphureous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tony Manero, Ray Mangrum, Horton Smith and Henry Picard, four of the game's master shotmakers. Facing him in the final was the biggest titan of them all, young Sam Snead, leading money-winning pro of the year and quite a bugaboo himself. Sam Snead of White Sulphur Springs had reached the final 23 strokes under par (for 165 holes), and was 2-to-1 favorite...
...sport addicts. But to a little rural group round Hot Springs, Va., Sam Snead was the youngest of the five Snead boys, the one who always kept "within hollering distance of his mother," the one who was a golf pro over at the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur and could drive 35 balls in a row for an average of 285 yards. Some of the drugstore hillbillies even ventured to say he was the best golfer in the world...
While it is true that a certain amount of natural decomposition is hard to prevent, it is a well-known fact that such poisonous chemicals as lead arsenate and sulphur dioxide are widely used to preserve fruits, the former to protect apples from the ravages of insects, and the latter in the drying of certain fruits such as apricots and plums. Meat is also treated chemically to preserve its red color. Many may applaud these modern methods of saving money employed by producers and middlemen, and may marvel at the wonders of modern science, but no one would think...
...whose tough job was to cover the headlong Chinese flight from Taiyuan in the North: ''Scenes of horror marked the retreat of the Chinese, including former Communist corps. Screaming and running like maniacs, [were] soldiers whose skin had been burned from their hands and face, splashed by sulphur bombs...
...White Sulphur, meanwhile, in the cool halls of the rambling Greenbrier Hotel, 565 I.B.A. members began many a ponderous investigation into the fundamental causes for such fiascos as the Pure Oil issuance. Since 1929, when new capital issues reached a staggering $8,639,000,000, investment banking has been but a shadow of its former self, refusing to revive along with business recovery. Only refunding has been on the rise. In 1929 refunding amounted to $1,387,000,000. Last year new financing was a paltry $1,190,000,000 and refunding was all of $3,300,000,000. Behind...