Word: sulphureous
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...railway, heard with satisfaction that Dr. Otto Reinebeck, German Minister to Central America who tried to torpedo the Havana Conference in 1940 and who was expelled from headquarters in Guatemala, had been met when his ship docked in Brooklyn, escorted to a reunion with other German diplomats at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va...
...spacious halls of the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., where leisure-loving Southerners played before the Civil War, a lonely gathering of Nazis celebrated Christmas. They were among the 159 German and Hungarian diplomats and newsmen and their families who have been transferred to "The White" from Washington...
...hibernating in corresponding comfort at Bad Nauheim in central Germany, pending exchange. In this war without honor, unlike World War I, the only way of insuring good treatment of U.S. diplomats caught in enemy territory is by strictly quid pro quo treatment. Said William Perry, Mayor of White Sulphur Springs: "We . . . are happy to have this privilege of doing our part during the war crisis...
Married. Mrs. Irene Curley Bodde Hutton, widow of Broker Franklyn L. Hutton, stepmother of Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow; and James A. Moffett, oil executive, onetime Federal Housing Administrator; both for the third time; at White Sulphur Springs...
...main line of attack was with chemicals. Problem: to find fungicides that would not hurt the crops. During the past decade the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (Yonkers, N. Y.) has experimented with almost all the standard elements, but farmers still rely chiefly on compounds of sulphur, mercury and copper. Since 1921 crops have been dusted with poison from airplanes. This is the most perilous branch of commercial aviation...