Word: sulphurously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JOHN V. POTTER JR. White Sulphur Springs, Mont...
Houston's Gulf Sulphur Corp. until a year ago was a $10.7 million-a-year operation that depended entirely on sulphur production in Mexico. Then President Robert H. Allen, 40, a lanky (6 ft. 4 in.) onetime Texas A. & M. distance runner, long-strided his way into the merger derby. Today, renamed Gulf Resources & Chemical Corp., Allen's company is a broadly based natural-resources producer with an annual sales rate of over $100 million. Explains Allen: "We did not want to be a com pany with a single mineral...
Price of Popularity. For Gulf Resources, profits of any amount are a relatively recent phenomenon. Founded in 1956 and armed with a concession for mining sulphur in the Mexican state of Veracruz, the company produced too little and borrowed too much, found itself deep in debt. When Allen, a former certified public accountant who had joined the company soon after its founding, became its president in 1960, he paid off the debts with company stock, brought in a new production man to raise sulphur output above the breakeven point. Within a year, the company showed its first profit...
Allen's impatience with a single product does not mean that sulphur is unprofitable. On the contrary, a phenomenal growth in demand-with nearly half of total U.S. production going into fertilizers-has sent sulphur prices soaring. But sulphur's very popularity threatens to deplete low-cost minable deposits. By diversifying into other minerals, Gulf Resources has also been minimizing its dependence on foreign-based facilities. As a result of its mergers, 80% of the company's assets are now located...
Seven oil-exploration contracts have been awarded to eager bidders, among them the U.S.'s Continental and Union Oil companies. Surveying for copper, Freeport Sulphur Co. recently found high-grade (4%) ore, and may invest up to $100 million to exploit it. International Nickel just got the go-ahead to start a $1,500,000 survey of nickel deposits on the island of Sulawesi (Celebes), and may invest $100 million. Bethlehem Steel has expressed interest in tin deposits, Boise Cascade in logging concessions. ITT agreed to build a satellite relay station near Djakarta at a cost...