Word: sulphurously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DWINDLING RESERVES are pinching Texas Gulf Sulphur Co., industry's longtime leader, which still supplies almost 50% of annual world market of 7,000,000 tons. Company has abandoned its offshore drilling lease in Gulf of Mexico, is slashing prices by 10% to fight competition. Result: Texas Gulf stock has slumped 36% in past year, and second-half earnings are expected to slump well below past years...
...military basket. This year's civilian orders are up 600% for Rem-Cru Titanium Inc., owned jointly by Remington Arms Co. and Crucible Steel Co. of America. The total is still small, but a few big contracts are beginning to roll in. Last week Freeport Sulphur Co. ordered about $500,000 worth of titanium tubing from Titanium Metals Corp. of America to carry a highly corrosive ore slurry at Freeport's new nickel and cobalt mine in Cuba...
...facilities ($70 million), expansion of the U.S. Government-owned nickel plant at Nicaro ($37 million). The boom shows no sign of slackening. Planned for the future: a $147 million expansion program by a subsidiary of American & Foreign Power Co.. a $75 million nickel-mining operation by a Freeport Sulphur Co. subsidiary. Even tourism, one of Cuba's three top industries, has held up through all the political troubles. For tropical beaches, open gambling and a throbbing night life, an estimated 350,000 visitors will have spent $35 million by the end of this year...
...March the General Services Administration agreed to buy up to 271 million Ibs. of nickel from Freeport Sulphur Co. by July 1965, thus giving Freeport incentive to build new nickel-producing facilities in Cuba and a $100 million refinery in Louisiana. Freeport's facilities will produce 50 million Ibs. of nickel annually, of which the U.S. will have the right to take up to 30% for stockpiling. The U.S. also contracted with M.A. Hanna Co. (to open a ferronickel mine in Riddle, Ore., which is now producing 11 million Ibs. a year) and with Canada's Falconbridge...
Frenchmen still agree that the water cure is as much a treat as a treatment. From their beginnings they have resolutely tried to drown their ills-real or borrowed-in the country's 2,500 springs that are laced with such life-giving elements as arsenic, sulphur, carbon, magnesium and uranium. "More than one person sang the praises of wine," wrote French Poet Paul Valery. "I love water...