Word: sulphurously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They found that the U. S. produced 34% of the world's coal; 32% of its copper; 35% of its electric power; 29% of its iron ore; 62% of its oil; 78% of its sulphur; 22% of its lead; 79% of its passenger automobiles and 66% of its trucks; 30% of its cotton and 67% of its silk goods; 67% of its rubber goods; 43% of its chemicals; 90% of its movies...
With Secretary Morgenthau hunting a homeward boat from Oslo, Secretary of State Hull vacationing in White Sulphur Springs, Postmaster General Farley in Paris, Attorney General Murphy in Narragansett, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins motoring in New England-and with Franklin Roosevelt in fog at sea (see p. 9)-these two politically young men (Hanes, 47; Welles, 46) last week met a war crisis full face...
Last fall from the leaf-red hills of White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., the New Deal-fearing Investment Bankers Association of America reached as far from Wall Street as it could stretch for its new president: sunburned Jean Carter Witter of the California firm of Dean Witter...
...Harvard Business School diploma. On his side was the family banking house into which he had been born 25 years before, the firm of John R. Williams of Richmond, Va. On the other was the established, close-mouthed management of the $19,303,681 Freeport Texas sulphur syndicate headed by old E. P. Swenson, onetime board chairman of Manhattan's powerful National City Bank...
Today at 36 Lang Williams is president of Freeport Sulphur Co., corporate successor (in a reorganization in 1936) to Freeport Texas. Board chairman is socialite John Hay Whitney who is only 34. Between them they operate the second largest sulphur company in the world (the largest: Texas Gulf Sulphur), which supplies some 27% of the world's supply of brimstone sulphur. Last year gross sales were $10,050,355. With its financial socks pulled up, Freeport Sulphur paid dividends of $2 on 796,380 shares of common stock, has paid a total of 50? in the first half...