Word: sulphureous
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Unlike the traditional auto battery, which contains solid lead and lead dioxide electrodes in a liquid electrolyte of sulphuric acid, the new Ford battery uses liquid sodium and liquid sulphur for electrodes and a novel ceramic electrolyte made of aluminum oxide. In the battery, electric current is produced by separating the sodium and sulphur with the ceramic electrolyte, which blocks the passage of all particles except sodium ions (sodium atoms stripped of one of their electrons...
Died. James H. Moyers, 39, Bill's older brother, also a White House aide, who was an editor of the Marshall (Texas) News Messenger, then a public relations man for the Freeport Sulphur Co., before joining the President's staff last year as a speechwriter; apparently of a heart attack; in McLean...
...rules so that the hobby, which often proved fatal, would be safe as well as fun. Eight years ago, the N.A.R. estimates, homemade rockets were killing or maiming one out of every seven kids and laymen attempting to mix fuel and fire a backyard bird. Explosive mixtures of sulphur and zinc dust blinded and burned dozens of people; lead pipes packed with match heads blew up like shrapnel in the inventors' faces...
Last year the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accused twelve directors, executives and employees of the Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. of using "insiders' " information to their own profit. According to the SEC, the twelve knew about the company's rich new mineral strike near Timmins, Ont., and started buying up stocks before a public announcement was made. Going to court, the SEC demanded among other things that the twelve be required to divest themselves of the Texas Gulf stock, plus any profits that they had picked up as insiders...
Lamont was a director of Texas Gulf Sulphur, and all the other defendants were either directors, officers, or employers of the company. The thirteenth man, Thomas P. O'Nell, the company's former accountant, did not file an answer to the suit and was not mentioned in Judge Bonsal's decision...