Word: sulphureous
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...shortage has been reflected in higher prices, which have risen nearly 33% since 1964. And now there is even rationing of the disappearing element. Manhattan-based Freeport Sulphur Co., which is the world's biggest producer (4,000,000 tons a year), has increased its output 70% over the past five years, but has had to limit its customers to 90% of their usual orders. Only two weeks ago, second-ranked Texas Gulf Sulphur (nearly 3,000,000 tons) began telling its buyers that they would have to settle for just 75% of their normal quotas during the next...
Advanced work on electric cars still centers around cheaper, more powerful batteries. General Motors, for example, is continuing work on high-capacity silver-zinc batteries, though they are still inordinately expensive. Ford has designed a sodium-sulphur battery that could drive a Falcon-sized car up to 130 miles at 50 m.p.h. Scientists agree that a production car using a version of either battery is still five to ten years...
...heavily polluted New Jersey, which shares high sulphur-dioxide concentrations with New York, a state assemblyman introduced a bill that would empower the Governor to shut down plants and incinerators and prohibit the movement of vehicles and the burning of any fuel during smog emergencies. Private citizens or corporate officers refusing to comply could be fined as much as $100,000 and imprisoned for as long as ten years...
...force local steel plants to adopt costly antipollution techniques, and transportation officials are investigating combination diesel-electric buses that would reduce ex haust fumes. An Illinois legislator has gone so far as to introduce a bill that would limit the use of Illinois coal-which has a high sulphur content-in public buildings...
...operated in Indonesia are investigating the scene too. One visitor last week was Eastern Air Lines President Floyd Hall, in Djakarta to talk about the possibilities of a joint operation in the islands with Garuda Airways, the national airline. U.S. Steel is contemplating nickel mining in West Irian, Freeport Sulphur is surveying copper prospects, and no fewer than 19 companies are competing for the right to drill for offshore oil around the big islands of Sumatra, Java and Borneo...