Word: sulphureous
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Renaissance. In the 50 years since a hurricane all but knocked Galveston off the map (5,000 people were killed, thousands maimed), the town had staged a remarkable comeback. It is not only the chief port for Texas cotton and Texas sulphur but-by virtue of its beaches and its tolerance-the state's leading hot weather resort, convention city and playground. The Maceo brothers, Sam and Rose (for Rosario), two dark, big-nosed Sicilian-born barbers who became Prohibition rumrunners, were among the leading spirits of this renaissance...
Ever since Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. developed its first producing well in a Gulf Coast salt dome 33 years ago, Walter Hull Aldridge has been its boss. Under Aldridge, Texas Gulf became the world's biggest producer of sulphur (second: Freeport Sulphur Co.) and the largest source of the cheap, pure sulphur (i.e., brimstone) needed by thousands of industries. Last week Walter Aldridge, 83, resigned as president of Texas Gulf and stepped up to be board chairman...
...When I came to Texas Gulf," says Nelson, "we were mostly checking up on what the other fellow was doing." The "other fellow" was the Germans who had come to the U.S. to find sulphur with scientific devices that were well ahead of those of the U.S. companies. Nelson caught up with the other fellow so fast that by 1928 he was boss of drilling at Texas Gulf's old Texas fields, later managed production of the vast new Boling Dome deposit on the Gulf Coast. In 1931, he invented the sulphur trap to separate air and steam from...
...also the world's biggest producer of raw materials. As much as 70% of the world supply of molybdenum (used to harden steel for cutting tools) has come from a single mine at Climax, Colo.; the U.S. produces 90% of the world's high-grade sulphur, is the largest producer of copper, exports more cotton than any other country. But in other materials, notably metals like tungsten and cobalt, the U.S. is a comparatively big user and small producer...
Emergency Rations. How can the problem be solved? The 25-nation International Materials Conference last week was meeting in Washington to find some friendly method of splitting up the world's raw materials. An allocation plan for sulphur has already been drawn up, and plans are soon due for lead and zinc. The conference has already sent an emergency supply of 3,000 tons of newsprint to France...