Word: sulphureous
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...Sulphur is one of the mainstays of U.S. industry. It is needed for everything from steel, fertilizer and rubber, to paper, rayon and flea powder. It is also one of the most plentiful of raw materials; in its most common form-pyrites deposits (sulphur mixed with other materials)-millions of tons are found above ground all over the world. Yet last week the U.S. and the whole Western bloc of nations were short of sulphur...
Fertilizer manufacturers, who use 35% of all U.S. sulphur, appeared before a House Agriculture subcommittee and complained that the shortage was cutting their output, thus threatening farm production. Last week, J. Harold Wilson, President of Britain's Board of Trade, told the House of Commons that the shortage was about to cripple British industry. "I am bound to tell the House," said Wilson, "that it presents a very grave picture indeed...
...reason for the shortage of one of the world's most common elements is that sulphur has been so easy to get in the past that nobody really bothered hustling for it. As late as World War I, the U.S. had to import more than one-third of its supply. But since the early '30s, the U.S. has provided an increasing stream of pure sulphur, or "brimstone," from the rich salt domes of the Gulf coast...
Cheap & Pure. Like many another sulphur user, Britain relied on the deposits in Texas and Louisiana for 90% of its supply. While it lasted, no one could match U.S. brimstone in price or purity. Sulphur from pyrites deposits was largely ignored, since brimstone is cheaper and easier to use. But as demand for sulphur rose to more than 150% of the peak war years, the rich Gulf coast brimstone deposits began to run out. Reserves above ground shrank from an 18 months' supply to a scant six months...
...Rochester, he sent scholarly messages to Congressmen opposing any change in the Neutrality Act, opposing Lend-Lease as the road to certain U.S. involvement in the conflict. In 1940, he headed the Democrats-for-Willkie group. He became a director of a number of topflight U.S. corporations, e.g., Freeport Sulphur Co., Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway Co., Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. In 1948, he served for a year as chief of the ECA mission to The Netherlands and was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau by Queen Juliana...