Word: sulphureous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Incendiaries were the earliest chemicals used in war. The first flame projector (glowing coals, sulphur and pitch) got into action at Delium in 424 B. c. Thermit, a mixture of iron oxide and powdered aluminum which burns at 3,000° C., was the chief World War incendiary. It was used in conjunction with oil to spread fires which the thermit started. Since there is not much of importance to burn on a battlefield, Author Prentiss believes the chief future use of thermit and other incendiaries will be against cities...
Texas needs money for a $15,000,000 deficit and increased running expenses. Moreover, a number of Texas legislators have it in for the sulphur companies, particularly for Texas Gulf, whose $46,000-per-year director of public relations, Roy Miller, was Texas finance chairman for the Democratic National Committee in the last campaign. Sulphur and other big Texas industries spent a deal of effort on their favorite candidates for the Legislature, many of whom were defeated in the primaries. This fact has not been forgotten by the winners, notably by San Antonio's quick-tongued little State Senator...
...Jock") Whitney, was apparently expressing no more than a pious hope. Only a few days before he released his report the people of Texas in the persons of the committee on revenue & taxation in the lower house of the Texas Legislature voted 11-to-6 to boost the sulphur tax from $1.03 to $2. To the dismay of Freeport and Texas Gulf witnesses and pleaders on the scene, the committee came within one vote of amending the bill to make...
...hearings last week Representative Graves got a Texas Gulf man to admit that sulphur could be mined for $8 per ton, whereas the price for years has been between $16 and $18 per ton. The sulphur companies argue that high taxes put them at a disadvantage in competition with foreign producers. Said a Texas Gulf man in Austin last week: "We have lost half our world trade in recent years." How much of this loss was directly traceable to a rigid price structure of their own making the U. S. sulphur producers have never volunteered...
When Louisiana jumped its sulphur tax to $2, the sulphur companies threatened to move out of the State. If the Texas Legislature passes the $2 tax recommended by the tax committee, as most observers think it will, the sulphur companies will have nowhere to go. As Texan Graves drawled last week: "Only God can make sulphur and he is making it mighty slow...