Word: sulphurously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...southern end of the Mississippi Delta, in swampland that is four feet under water at high tide, Freeport Sulphur Co. has struck the biggest sulphur bed discovered in the past 20 years. From these new deposits at Garden Island Bay, La. (see map), Freeport expects to mine 500,000 tons of brimstone (pure sulphur) a year by 1953. The effect of this announcement last week was electric. Overnight, Freeport's stock shot up as much as 19 points, to 120, the highest price in the company's history...
...biggest news in Freeport's strike was the fact that it will soon put the U.S., supplier of 50% of the world's sulphur, in a position to whip one of the world's most critical shortages. Sulphur, vital to the production of everything from explosives and steel to newsprint and rayon, is as essential to industry as salt is to food. While the U.S. is now producing 6,000,000 tons a year, the world demand is now running 1,000,000 tons a year ahead of the total world supply of 11,700,000 tons...
Renaissance. In the 50 years since a hurricane all but knocked Galveston off the map (5,000 people were killed, thousands maimed), the town had staged a remarkable comeback. It is not only the chief port for Texas cotton and Texas sulphur but-by virtue of its beaches and its tolerance-the state's leading hot weather resort, convention city and playground. The Maceo brothers, Sam and Rose (for Rosario), two dark, big-nosed Sicilian-born barbers who became Prohibition rumrunners, were among the leading spirits of this renaissance...
Ever since Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. developed its first producing well in a Gulf Coast salt dome 33 years ago, Walter Hull Aldridge has been its boss. Under Aldridge, Texas Gulf became the world's biggest producer of sulphur (second: Freeport Sulphur Co.) and the largest source of the cheap, pure sulphur (i.e., brimstone) needed by thousands of industries. Last week Walter Aldridge, 83, resigned as president of Texas Gulf and stepped up to be board chairman...
...When I came to Texas Gulf," says Nelson, "we were mostly checking up on what the other fellow was doing." The "other fellow" was the Germans who had come to the U.S. to find sulphur with scientific devices that were well ahead of those of the U.S. companies. Nelson caught up with the other fellow so fast that by 1928 he was boss of drilling at Texas Gulf's old Texas fields, later managed production of the vast new Boling Dome deposit on the Gulf Coast. In 1931, he invented the sulphur trap to separate air and steam from...