Word: sulphurous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arriving in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. for a Governors' meeting, Governor Nelson Rockefeller announced that he has extended his mid-December Midwest speaking tour to include stops at Dallas, Houston, Tulsa, St. Louis and Miami. Rocky, who has already covered nearly 8,000 miles testing the sentiments of both professionals and amateurs, told a "background" session of reporters that he now regards the contest for the G.O.P. presidential nomination as a campaign of the "pros against the people." In other words, he must beguile the Republican-in-the-street-and the independent voter -in order to win over...
...setting up the military courts, suspending habeas corpus, ending the right of prisoners to appeal on grounds of unconstitutionality. The Cabinet slapped a 25% export tax on minerals, living up to Castro's boast at the rally that his mining law would "hurt the vested interests," e.g., Freeport Sulphur's Moa Bay nickel and cobalt mines. Mining companies, still studying the law, said that it was "pretty rough" and might wipe out profits completely. Three days later, Castro seized oil-company records of land leases in Cuba, pending issuance of a new petroleum code...
...lepidopterist. Recently he heard of a mulatto woman named Madame Sam who lived in Algiers, across the river from New Orleans, and supposedly sang a particularly unadulterated brand of old French. Sam, it turned out, was not up to her billing, but she sent Oster chasing downriver to Port Sulphur, where another ancient mulatto named Alma Bartholomew produced, on request, 60 different pre-17th century French songs...
...This ain't my kind of place," growled Teamster Boss James Riddle Hoffa. His cold, hard eyes swept across the well-groomed grounds of the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. He spat on the lawn. "We are paying the bill." he said, "but those intellectuals, those lawyers, picked out this place. This is their kind of place. They like to play golf and that stuff...
Chemicals 1958 1959 Du Pont $3.08 $4.61 Wyandotte .14 1.22 Freeport Sulphur .79 .91 Union Carbide 1.66 3.00 Olin Mathieson .74 1.32 Thiokol .22 .65 Rails 1958 1959 Pennsylvania Railroad loss $ .48 New York Central Railroad loss 1.56 Miscellaneous RCA $ .86 1.29 B.F. Goodrich 1.60 2.18 Kennecott Copper 2.07 4.32 Libbey-Owens-Ford .57 3.16 Pepsi-Cola .85 .97 American Machine & Foundry 1.38 2.27 Texaco 2.37 2.79 National Distillers .88 1.05 National Cash Register .96 1.07 Phillips Petroleum...