Word: sulphurously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three days last week the President met with Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines and Canada's Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent amid such scenes of studied informality and good neighborliness. The meeting was held not in Washington but in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., a watering place set amid the Alleghenies. There was no agenda, little protocol. A U.S. participant described one session of the talks...
Adrian M. Massie, Chairman of the Board of the New York Trust Company, Francis Kernan '24, Director of Freeport Sulphur Company, and Harold S. Geneen, Vice President of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, will speak on Finance tonight in the second Career Conference of the year...
...capital, formed El Paso Natural Gas to build the pipeline. (El Paso, unlike most other gas-transmission companies, has built most of its own pipelines.) Part of the flare gas that came through this first 217-mile line turned out to be "sour"-loaded with sulphur. Nobody had ever made money from sour gas before, but Kayser and his men worked out a cheap way to remove the sulphur, sold both the sulphur...
...NEXT BIG BONANZA for the Gulf Coast will be offshore sulphur. After spending $2,000,000 on exploration and evaluation, Humble Oil Company has brought in the first big sulphur deposit under the Gulf of Mexico, six miles off the Louisiana coast, estimates that the deposit holds between 30 million and 40 million tons of sulphur, may be the world's third or fourth biggest find...
...millions," he persuaded three fellow Beaumonters to back him, but all he returned was three dry Spindletop holes. He became the town bore. Beaumont residents sneeringly called him "the millionaire." Desperate for a believer, Higgins advertised in a New York trade journal the glowing promise of oil, gas and sulphur in Spindletop, and flushed one reply. It was enough. Dalmatian-born Anthony Lucas, one time Austrian naval lieutenant who came to the U.S. to visit and stayed on to work as a mining engineer, agreed to drill for oil on Spindletop...