Word: sulphureous
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...chemicals which Dr. Gericke adds to his water are those which ordinary plants need and get from the soil-calcium, magnesium, potassium, nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus, iron, boron, manganese, copper, zinc. Wire netting is stretched over the top of the tanks and packed with excelsior or sawdust in which the seeds are planted and from which roots sprout down into the water. This bed of litter on the netting serves to support the stalks after the plants are grown. Each tank has an area of .01 acre. In one of these Dr. Gericke grew 1,224 lb. of tomatoes, in another...
...During 1936 your company was confronted with a serious obstacle in the form of increased severance taxes in both Louisiana and Texas," wrote Freeport Sulphur Co.'s young President Langbourne M. Williams Jr. in his report to stockholders last week. Those two States account for 99% of all sulphur mined in the U. S.. and nearly all of it is produced by two companies, Texas Gulf Sulphur and President Williams' Freeport. Both companies are making money in spite of the fact that Louisiana upped the sulphur tax from 27? per ton to 60? in 1934, upped...
...management of your company is glad to report, however," concluded President Williams last week, "that there are indications of a growing realization on the part of the people of Texas and Louisiana that the future growth of the sulphur industry in these States depends upon the ability of the American companies to compete on a favorable basis with foreign producers...
...doctors insisted that Mayor Dickmann sign the ordinance in the interest of public health, though it would require practically all users of soft coal in St. Louis to install new kinds of furnaces. Coal dealers would be obliged to "wash" small-sized coal and hand-pick chunks to prevent sulphuric acid and other products of burning sulphur from getting into the atmosphere. Locomotives would be permitted to belch smoke in St. Louis only for six minutes in any hour while getting up steam in a roundhouse, only one minute while on open tracks...
From Midland, Dow indirectly serves the washwoman (with caustic soda in soap), the tiremaker (with sulphur chloride used in vulcanizing rubber), the shoe maker (sodium sulphide for tanning), the cleaner (chloroform and carbon tetrachloride), the dyer (synthetic indigo), the rayon maker (acetic anhydride...