Word: sulphurously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...geologists have learned to use bacteria as an aid to exploration, e.g., certain important layers of rock can be identified by the fossil microorganisms imbedded in the strata. Some of these are remains of bacteria that lived freakishly on iron or sulphur compounds; others, still living, get along on petroleum itself. Most common soils contain bacteria that can "eat" hydrocarbons; if oil is spilled on the soil, they multiply enthusiastically, and soon the oil disappears...
Furthermore, another normally dry gully (Sulphur Draw) flash-flooded the drought-stricken town of Lamesa. Said a survivor. Bible in hand: "The Lord sent the rain, and I don't hold it against Him." Floods from Sulphur Draw and hundreds of other roiling gullies roared into Devils River, the Pecos and other surging streams, which poured into the Rio Grande. The big, sleepy river, bone-dry in places, e.g., Laredo, a year ago, rose as much as a foot an hour, and trouble roared downstream...
...Afterwards, Cooper drifted among the patches of family groups, diligently shaking hands. He ate a huge helping-fried chicken, cornbread sticks, deviled eggs, stringbeans and bacon, two kinds of cake, watermelon. Then he flew off again, for a brief look-in at a tobaccomen's convention in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., and a $100-a-plate campaign fund-raising dinner in Louisville. This week, after four days of duty at his Washington desk. Cooper will go back to Kentucky for another big weekend of campaigning and speeches...
Many more such outlandish craft will be built to exploit the fabulous treasure of oil, gas and sulphur that lies under the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. Bringing it up and to shore will be hard, risky and expensive, but the oilmen, though strangers to the sea, are the most supremely confident of confident Americans...
TIDELANDS SULPHUR has been found off Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. Humble Oil has struck a deposit 2,500 ft. down, six miles off Grand Isle. It will drill 20 test holes in the next two years, then possibly team up with a sulphur company to mine the deposit...