Word: sulphureous
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...Sulphur and tulips...
After the first half of the lecture, Mallinckrodt MB9 became a virtual battle-field with every type of powder from Roger Bacon's original sulphur, saltpeter, and charcoal formula to the present high-explosive, gun-cotton, in prominent display and usage...
...consumption). Its cost was so high that within a few years after the Armistice domestic production had dribbled almost to the vanishing point. Steelmen wrote off the U. S., along with Cuba, as sources of manganese. Last week it appeared from the annual report of Freeport Sulphur Co. that steelmen may have been premature...
...Freeport Sulphur (which reported a net of $2,200,762, up 46.8% from 1938) owns 90% of Cuban-American Manganese Corp. The discoverer of Cuban manganese was a Rough Rider, John Campbell Greenway, later a famed Arizona rancher and copper tycoon who married a schoolmate of Eleanor Roosevelt. Rough Rider Greenway kicked up a lump of ore on a hike over a dusty Cuban road in '98, showed his find to fellow Lieut. David M. Goodrich. Easier to work than U. S. ore because it lies close to the surface, Cuban deposits were far lower grade than the Russian...
Most unusual boat: a Higgins Industries, Inc. $17,000, 42-foot, Eureka model offshore pleasure cruiser. Eureka has a spoonbill bow with wood strips diverging downward to drive a cushion of spray under the hull. The tunnel-stern (fashioned after the belly of a sulphur-bottom whale) houses the screw, which is protected below by an extra heavy skeg, a solid metal, keel-like extension of the hull. Purpose: to enable the boat to crunch through driftwood, bounce over logs, hurdle narrow land spits, climb a beach and land a party dry-shod, wham up on a sloping concrete...