Word: sulphureous
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...their chief argument is that Culligan's interest in editorial salvage work has waned, particularly since the discovery of a rich copper-ore body in Ontario, adjacent to a Curtis holding of timberland. Since then, Culligan has filled the role of prospector with enthusiasm. Texas Gulf Sulphur, which made the discovery, has promised Curtis a mere 10% of the net profit in mining Curtis' acres-if and when they are ever mined. Buoyed in part by the blue-sky possibilities in Ontario, Curtis stock rose to a high of 191, has since settled in the vicinity...
...single man stands like a birdwatcher, and scuffles the pepper and salt snow from a discarded, gray Westinghouse Electric cable drum. He cannot discover America by counting the chains of condemned freight-trains from thirty states . . . Across the river, ledges of suburban factories tan in the sulphur-yellow sun of the unforgivable landscape...
Bearded Irish Cinemactor Peter O'Toole, 31, plays the messenger of God who gets saved from a fete worse than death in Sodom in John Huston's The Bible, now afilming in Rome. Off the set, he rains sulphur and brimstone all by himself, according to the paparazzi who tried to snap him downing some friendly firewater with comely British Starlet Barbara Steele. "He charged me, punched me in the face, grabbed my camera, smacking it against my ear," related one razed lensman. "I had to have five stitches taken." Tinkled O'Toole, with the tongue...
...Gerardo Murillo. He loved volcanoes. He lived four months on the slopes of Mount Etna, spent six months inside Popoca tepetl's crater, and bought Paricutin volcano for $78 when it was a baby in 1943. He so mistreated his body that his teeth fell out from sulphur fumes and a leg was amputated because of bad circulation. He called himself "Dr. Atl" (Aztec for water), and signed that name to more than 11,000 drawings and 1,000 paintings, mostly volcanic landscapes...
Early in July, Windfall announced that it had started drilling in the Timmins area about 31 miles from the Texas Gulf Sulphur site. Without so much as a hint of what, if anything, had been found, investors bought up more than 6,000,000 shares of Windfall in the week of this announcement. Rumors of a rich lode raced through Bay Street, Toronto's Wall Street. The company remained noncommittal and, despite frequent urgings from the Toronto Exchange, did not report its drilling results...