Word: sulphureous
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...capital, formed El Paso Natural Gas to build the pipeline. (El Paso, unlike most other gas-transmission companies, has built most of its own pipelines.) Part of the flare gas that came through this first 217-mile line turned out to be "sour"-loaded with sulphur. Nobody had ever made money from sour gas before, but Kayser and his men worked out a cheap way to remove the sulphur, sold both the sulphur...
...NEXT BIG BONANZA for the Gulf Coast will be offshore sulphur. After spending $2,000,000 on exploration and evaluation, Humble Oil Company has brought in the first big sulphur deposit under the Gulf of Mexico, six miles off the Louisiana coast, estimates that the deposit holds between 30 million and 40 million tons of sulphur, may be the world's third or fourth biggest find...
...millions," he persuaded three fellow Beaumonters to back him, but all he returned was three dry Spindletop holes. He became the town bore. Beaumont residents sneeringly called him "the millionaire." Desperate for a believer, Higgins advertised in a New York trade journal the glowing promise of oil, gas and sulphur in Spindletop, and flushed one reply. It was enough. Dalmatian-born Anthony Lucas, one time Austrian naval lieutenant who came to the U.S. to visit and stayed on to work as a mining engineer, agreed to drill for oil on Spindletop...
...President Langbourne Meade Williams, 52, of Freeport Sulphur Co. was elected chairman of the National Industrial Conference Board. A tall (6 ft. 2 in.), courtly Southerner, with a deep sense of industry's responsibilities as well as its power, Williams won a proxy fight for control of Freeport Sulphur when he was only 27. A product of the University of Virginia ('24) and Harvard's Business School, he has been the sparkplug in Freeport's extensive exploration and fast expansion (TIME, Sept...
...Thermos Bottle" Barges. The Coyle Lines, Inc. of New Orleans took delivery on the first of three "thermos bottle" barges that will carry liquid sulphur from Port Sulphur, La. to St. Louis. Currently shipped mostly in solid form, sulphur now will be transported just as it is drawn from the earth, eliminating several costly handling processes...