Word: sulphureous
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...evaluated by the bureaucracy, various imports got various rates; e.g., whisky was made proportionately more costly to import than milk. Export rates, too, were adjusted to let commodities-in theory at least-meet foreign competition; there was a "copper dollar," a "wine dollar," a "nitrate dollar" and a "sulphur dollar." Soon the government was in the satisfying business of creaming off a profit from exchange transactions...
...poisonous sulphur trioxide, filled his room and quickly enveloped the small courtyard entries. No one was injured by the break, which occurred at 7:30 p.m., but many students were forced to leave their rooms. A strong odor prevailed for at least a half hour afterwards...
...three days last week the President met with Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines and Canada's Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent amid such scenes of studied informality and good neighborliness. The meeting was held not in Washington but in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., a watering place set amid the Alleghenies. There was no agenda, little protocol. A U.S. participant described one session of the talks...
...Played 18 holes at White Sulphur Springs, triumphing with Partner Sammy Snead over White House Press Secretary James Hagerty and Appointments Secretary Bernard Shanley. The President's score...
Adrian M. Massie, Chairman of the Board of the New York Trust Company, Francis Kernan '24, Director of Freeport Sulphur Company, and Harold S. Geneen, Vice President of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, will speak on Finance tonight in the second Career Conference of the year...