Word: sulphurously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every investor struck pay dirt. Several solid issues scraped their year's low. American Export Lines (which hit a crest of 34⅝ this year) slipped to 28⅞; Freeport Sulphur slumped to 27⅝ from the year's high of 37⅜. United Aircraft, one of the stocks in the Dow-Jones average, was off to 52½ from...
...tournament named for him and played on his home course at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., aging (46) Sam Snead, one of golf's most brilliant (and most erratic) pros, tore the Greenbrier course apart, had eleven one-putt greens, posted a fabulous 59. Eleven under par, it was the lowest score ever recorded in a major golf tournament. Though he has blown big leads in his time, this one was too much for his competitors, and Snead coasted to an eleven-stroke victory...
...Embark on a program of nationalization of such industries as sulphur, using the clause in the constitution giving the state control over subsoil resources...
Resurrection. Among other scenes. Author Levi describes the dark sulphur mines of Lercara, owned by the terrible Cyclopean figure of Signor N. In their underground world, the mine workers have only recently discovered the weapons of the trade union and the strike, and in this "ordinary, normal episode of social struggle," Levi sees something comparatively religious-a kind of resurrection...
...with a pair of Cuban guides. His mission: negotiating the release of ten U.S. and two Canadian executives and engineers kidnaped by Raúl Castro's men two days earlier from the village of Moa, site of a $75 million nickel-processing plant under construction for Freeport Sulphur Co. (TIME...