Word: sulphureous
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...often find their way-as waste-into the air people breathe, the water they drink and the food they eat. Often invisible and immune to bacteriological attack, they damage plants, kill fish, slip undetected through sewage-treatment plants, and blanket entire cities with clouds of noxious vapor. Some, like sulphur dioxide, are clearly toxic-memorably so in the five-day siege of sulphurous smog in Donora, Pa. (pop. 13,000), which struck down 5,910 and killed 18 in October 1948. Others, doctors think, may have serious cumulative effects on human health-which will not show up for perhaps...
...Whitman's Duet for a Small Smell was introduced by the burning of sulphur, which put the audience into paroxysms of coughing. That made them "part of the act," Whitman figured. At the climax, a girl stabbed a dummy, but not violently. "A violent stabbing would be much too literary...
Some chemical companies (Monsanto, Vick Chemical, Freeport Sulphur) also reported moderately lower earnings for the quarter as a result of the steel strike, but all ended 1959 well ahead of 1958. Almost all railroads, whose generally sad financial plight was worsened by the steel strike's effect on business, saw fourth quarter earnings fall. But there were signs that the slump in oil may be over. Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) lifted its profit 11% for the year, made a slight gain in the fourth quarter; fourth-quarter gains were also chalked up by Phillips Petroleum and Standard...
...Arriving in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. for a Governors' meeting, Governor Nelson Rockefeller announced that he has extended his mid-December Midwest speaking tour to include stops at Dallas, Houston, Tulsa, St. Louis and Miami. Rocky, who has already covered nearly 8,000 miles testing the sentiments of both professionals and amateurs, told a "background" session of reporters that he now regards the contest for the G.O.P. presidential nomination as a campaign of the "pros against the people." In other words, he must beguile the Republican-in-the-street-and the independent voter -in order to win over...
...setting up the military courts, suspending habeas corpus, ending the right of prisoners to appeal on grounds of unconstitutionality. The Cabinet slapped a 25% export tax on minerals, living up to Castro's boast at the rally that his mining law would "hurt the vested interests," e.g., Freeport Sulphur's Moa Bay nickel and cobalt mines. Mining companies, still studying the law, said that it was "pretty rough" and might wipe out profits completely. Three days later, Castro seized oil-company records of land leases in Cuba, pending issuance of a new petroleum code...