Word: sulphurously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Woman: Don't trouble. I saw your picture in the paper playing golf at White Sulphur Springs and spending the stockholders' money...
Glutathione. At the National Institute of Health, Pharmacologist Director Carl Voegtlin & associates observed that an organic sulphur compound, glutathione, present in all living body cells, is concerned with the body's defense against the toxic action of arsenic and certain other poisons. Glutathione occurs in large quantities in cancer cells. It occurred to Professor Voegtlin and Dr. Harold W. Chalkley, an associate, that glutathione might be a contributing cause of cancer. Forthwith they immersed amoebae (single- celled animalcules) in a glutathione solu-tion.* The amoebae reproduced themselves by subdivision (as all cells do) with extraordinary ease, confirming the Voegt...
...stacks of Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co.'s plant at Trail, British Columbia, pour billows of smoke heavy with sulphur fumes. The fumes drift across the nearby international border, enter the State of Washington, permeating the broad valley of the Columbia River, poisoning orchards, crops, cattle...
...remain in the shrewd hands of David Marvin Goodrich, chairman of B. F. Goodrich Co. A big mill will be built at once, shipments to the U. S. started. Surprising, however, was revelation of the U. S. firm's identity. It was Freeport Texas Co., second biggest producer of sulphur...
Although manganese and sulphur are not entirely foreign (manganese sulphate is an esteemed fertilizer) the deal was not concluded because of any relationship between the two products but to add to Freeport Texas' income from natural resources. Also, Freeport Texas has worked out a new process in treating manganese and will sell it at $24 a ton to compete against Soviet dumping. To pacify U. S. producers who see Cuban manganese coming in without the $11.20 duty other manganese must pay, Freeport Texas promises cooperation, generosity with its new process...