Word: sulphureous
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...months ago "Sydney's Dream" was opened with official pomp, unofficial commotion (TIME, March 28). Last week it gave promise of becoming Sydney's nightmare. Large cracks appeared in the roadway, running both transversely and longitudinally. The bridge is paved with a coke compound. The compound contains sulphur. Engineers examining the paving, which was laid on a steel deck, found that the sulphur is setting up a chemical reaction which, if unchecked, must cause the steel deck rapidly to corrode...
...Ellsworth Vines Jr., U. S. tennis champion: the Mason & Dixon championship, beating in the final Wilmer Allison, of Austin, Tex., who had twice beat him earlier this year 6-4, 6-1, 6-4; at White Sulphur Springs...
...work of one Julio Tellez Giron, 46, research chemist who spent 17 years developing his theory that petroleum in its early stages closely resembles rubber. His process is to take crude petroleum, mix it with ground sugar cane. This compound is refined, fried in the sun, vulcanized with sulphur.* Compania Hulera Mexicana is capitalized at $115,000, has for directors sub-Secretary of War General Abelardo Rodriquez, Secretary of Industry Aron Saenz, Foreign Secretary Genaro Estrada...
...upon the national banking scene, National Credit Corp. made a report about itself, told how it was getting on, what it was doing. John Maffit Miller Jr., N. C. C. director in the Fifth Federal Reserve District (Richmond, Va.) arose before the Investment Bankers Association in convention at White Sulphur Springs and reported...
...water, it will not be expensive to make. Duprene looks like natural rubber, shows the same molecular makeup in xray, but is denser, more resistant to water absorption, to attacks by ozone, oxygen and other chemicals, to swelling by gasoline & kerosene. It is vulcanized by heat alone, without sulphur. At high temperatures it hardens slowly. Its powers of resistance are expected to give it many commercial uses now denied to rubber, but so far it has not been produced in a form sufficiently pliable for use in automobile tires. Du Pont officials believed that in spite of the present...