Word: sulphureous
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...Devil is getting his due in French books, plays and movies these days, and Author Gabriel Venaissin notes the trend in the current issue of Combat: "An odor of sulphur hovers over Paris . . . The Devil in 1955 uses Chanel perfume, however. He is a distinguished man of the world . . . Lucifer burns no one today. But it's strange to see him come back so abundant, so eloquent, so cut up, as it were, into hundreds of little devils all trying to outrival each other...
...Brady brothers, who have worked on and off as contract drillers for oil companies, got their first hint of Mexican sulphur 15 years ago when Ashton picked up a 1904 Shell Oil Co. exploration report. It told of salt domes on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a geological formation that often indicates sulphur. It took six years before they could prove their hunch. Starting to drill near San Cristóbal in 1942, they were slowed down by the war, by an unfriendly and suspicious local population, even by the malaria-filled jungle itself, where torrential rains turn everything into...
...ltipan area they found a great dome that may be the world's biggest, surpassing even Texas' famed Boling Dome, which has yielded 40 million tons. This time the Bradys turned over production rights to a group of Texas oilmen who formed Pan American Sulphur...
...Penthouse. Since then, the Bradys have found sulphur in still a third area, Salinas, and formed their own Gulf Sulphur Corp. They get the same profitable deal the Mexican government has made with the other companies: a 20-year agreement under which they pay production royalties of between 4% and 15%, plus an export tax ranging...
...into one of Mexico City's newest office buildings, where they could keep a radio check on their jungle drilling rigs from a carpeted, glass-walled penthouse. Reports came in of three new wells, two for Brady companies and one for their biggest rival, the huge Texas Gulf Sulphur Co., the world's biggest sulphur producer. Texas' well in Mexico was its first find after four discouraging years of drilling at a cost of $6,000,000, and even then it was not a large deposit. Says Bill Brady with a shrug: "You work like hell...