Word: sulfur
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...welfare; or if they do know, they can't seem to get anywhere at the white-run welfare office. This is the second poorest county in the country. The one industry is a good-sized paper mill which somehow manages to pollute the whole county with a nauseating sulfur smell...
...sulfur, eggs...
...commissioners-a farmer, a contractor and a forester-took their responsibilities seriously. While approving the plant, they put ten severe restrictions on its wastes. Result: Spruce Tissue resented being told precisely what kind of low-sulfur fuel oil to use, and said it could not comply with water-pollution regulations that sounded as though the company would have to clean up the entire Hoosic River...
...cloud? Many of them, Parker decided, are large enough to act as nuclei for slowly condensing droplets of water-an essential ingredient for all earthly life. The tiny organisms also have an amazingly varied diet available even in unpolluted clouds: oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, ammonium, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, butane and acetone. Such necessary minerals as potassium, phosphorus, calcium, iron and magnesium could be transported to the clouds in airborne soil and dust particles...
...Arabs themselves, however, are not above using a little oil blackmail to raise prices, as Libya recently did. Libya is one country that enjoys a seller's market, situated as it is close to Europe, where its low-sulfur oil is much in demand. Over the past six years, Europeans have come to depend on Libya for 30% of their oil. Playing on that, the revolutionary government of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has pressured the companies to raise their posted price by 13.4% and pay the government a 5% tax surcharge. Most of the independent companies operating in Libya have...