Word: sulphurously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Berlitz recites the familiar roll call of the triangle's victims-ranging from large ships like the 425-ft. freighter Marine Sulphur Queen, which disappeared off the Dry Tortugas in 1963, to small yachts, like the ocean racer Revonoc, which vanished off Florida in 1967. He also makes much of the famous "lost patrol" incident in December 1945, when five Navy torpedo bombers on a training flight, as well as a flying boat sent out to search for them, seemed to vanish into thin air. Heightening the sense of mystery, Berlitz cites reports of strangely spinning compasses and unexplained...
...succeed in doing so the last time they took on A T & T, in a suit filed during the Truman Administration in 1949 That suit was finally resolved by the Eisenhower Administration. During an informal meeting with A T & T's general counsel at the Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., Ike's Attorney General, Herbert Brownell, offered what the AT&T man described as a "friendly tip" on how to negotiate a settlement. Soon after, the Government approved a consent decree that allowed Bell to keep Western Electric in return for a wrist-slap promise...
...uniform, being captured by the Austrian army, whereas Parrott's new one tells all about his subsequent trial. It also includes many of the digressions that Paul Selver cut out. Some of the digressions are extremely funny--for instance, Animal World magazine's ex-editor's description of the Sulphur-Bellied Whale, the Artful Prosperian, the Edible Ox ("the ancient prototype of the cow") and the Sepia Infusorian ("which I characterized as a sort of sewer rat")--and others are hardly funny at all. The new translation has more good stuff in it and it's probably more accurate...
...company, has prospered by attracting 32 foreign oil companies to explore and by allowing them to earn handsome profits. Until recently, the companies retained up to 58% of the oil that they produced and gave the rest to Pertamina, which sold it. Now, with prices soaring for its low-sulphur "sweet crude" and production up to 1.4 million bbl. a day, Pertamina is renegotiating its contracts with foreign concerns to bring the government share up to 60% or more...
...UTILITY's own statements provide compelling evidence against the plant which will emit 460 tons of sulphur dioxide each day, or 13,000 tons each month. ACORN says that an iron smelter in Ontario emits 8,000 tons a month, and that vegetation within five miles of the smelter is wiped...