Word: sulphurously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sulphur is one of the mainstays of U.S. industry. It is needed for everything from steel, fertilizer and rubber, to paper, rayon and flea powder. It is also one of the most plentiful of raw materials; in its most common form-pyrites deposits (sulphur mixed with other materials)-millions of tons are found above ground all over the world. Yet last week the U.S. and the whole Western bloc of nations were short of sulphur...
...Rochester, he sent scholarly messages to Congressmen opposing any change in the Neutrality Act, opposing Lend-Lease as the road to certain U.S. involvement in the conflict. In 1940, he headed the Democrats-for-Willkie group. He became a director of a number of topflight U.S. corporations, e.g., Freeport Sulphur Co., Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway Co., Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. In 1948, he served for a year as chief of the ECA mission to The Netherlands and was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau by Queen Juliana...
...refrigerator, belonging to Raymond E. Kassar, Joseph L. Stendig, H. Frederick Krimindahi IL, and Lee J. Moldsworth, all first-year men was delivered early is the afternoon. Before long, Kasser and Moldsworth noticed as odor of sulphur dioxide...
Other highlights of the Business School gifts were: George F. Baker Trust, $100,000; Geodfrey L. Cabot, $25,000; 'Frecsport Sulphur, $30,000; General Mills, $25,000; B. F. Goodrich, %50,000; and M. A. Hauna Company...
Shipping on the lower Brahmaputra River (whose source is in the Himalayas) was dislocated by a tide of tens of thousands of uprooted trees and the bodies of tigers, elephants and other wild life borne down the river from the earthquake area. The waters of the Brahmaputra, blackened with sulphur that the quake had churned up from the earth's innards, cast up millions of dead and dying fish. Up in the mountains the river had been dammed by landslides. Indian air force pilots in Liberator bombers were sent to blast the river free, but before they could...