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Word: sulphurously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's Freeport Sulphur Co. showed $1,279,000 for the half, compared to $1,014,000 in the same period a year ago. Not only a sulphur company is Freeport: near Santiago, Cuba it is now producing 10,000 tons of 'manganese per month. After the manganese tariff was halved following the signing of the reciprocal trade pact with Brazil, a big manganese producer, Freeport's Cuban subsidiary languished until prices rose and another $500,000 was invested in new equipment. This year for the first time since 1934 Freeport's Cuban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Earnings | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...Open Championship, No. 1 event of golf-72 holes of medal play for the best amateurs and professionals in the U. S. sifted through nation-wide sectional qualifying tests-started out as anticipated. Most publicized U. S. golfer since Bobby Jones, long-driving young Sam Snead of White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., playing in his first Open, lived up to all advance notices with a 69 (three under par) for his first round. Made after a shaky start in which he was two over par on the first four holes, he shared the lead with P. G. A. Champion Denny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Answer at Oakland Hills | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...landed on the fairway, rolled to a stop. Officials noted its exact position: 313 yd. 17 in. from the spot where it had been hit. That drive, hit last Sunday afternoon before a big gallery of other professionals, got its author, 24-year-old Professional Sam Snead of White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., $200, first prize in Sports Illustrated'?, first annual driving contest, held as a curtain-raiser to the Professional Golfers Association annual tournament which started the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tee Totals | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...Pont has manufactured insecticides (Bordeaux Mixture, Calcium Arsenate, Dutox, Spreader & Sticker, Lime Sulphur Solution) since 1929. Its new laboratory is devoted to war on all sorts of pests- insects, fungi, worms, bacteria, weeds, rodents, marine plants, marine animals- and claims therefore to be unique. On its staff are two plant pathologists, six entomologists, four chemists, some 20 assistants. With an initial investment of $100,000, the laboratory's operating cost is expected to be $125,000 a year. Object is to find new and better insecticides which Du Pont can sell to farmers, nurserymen, fishermen, manufacturers, housewives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Du Pont v. Pests | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

Died. Horace Simpson Wilkinson, 68, board chairman of Crucible Steel Co. of America, president of Great Lakes Steamship Co.; of coronary thrombosis and myocarditis; in Chicago. Died. Larz Anderson, 70, onetime Minister to Belgium (1911-12) and Ambassador to Japan (1912-13); in White Sulphur Springs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 19, 1937 | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

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