Word: sulphurously
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...material out of dead is highly exciting. Basic material of all beings is protoplasm. Every body cell contains protoplasm, a gooey material like white of egg, one-fourth heavier than water. Protoplasm always contains at least twelve elements: calcium, carbon, chlorine, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, sulphur. The living combination of these is exceedingly complex. Best of chemists have been unable to decipher the protoplasmic interrelations. Could they do "so, they could make protoplasm in their laboratories...
Texas Gulf Sulphur...
...Twenty years ago, July 4 was ushered in with 18-in. cannoncrackers which sounded like quarry blasts. These, largest ever made. were constructed with a heavy cardboard case two-thirds filled with saltpetre, carbon and sulphur. In those days, long before and after July 4 fireworkmen were billed like vaudeville teams about the country, the wonders of pyrotechny were displayed to smalltown folk in parks and pastures. Greatest spectacle of these traveling companies was "The Last Days of Pompeii," a morality pageant on a 576-ft. canvas topped by a 70-ft. Vesuvius. Climax of the spectacle came when...
...until the 19th century did pyrotechny make big advances. Prior to this time saltpetre, carbon, sulphur made up the colorless displays. As various metal salts were discovered they were introduced to make colors in fireworks. Strontium and lithium salts give red: barium and copper, green; other copper salts blue. Last great advance was the discovery that magnesium and aluminum salts impart white brilliance to fireworks...
...head of the list is Walter Hull Aldridge, president of Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. At the bottom is American Radiator's Clarence Mott Woolley. In between are only some 85 other names but all are potent in U. S. business. They bring potency to the National Foreign Trade Council whose membership they form. For the most part the Council works silently but effectively on the problems of trade and its encouragement, but once a year it holds an open Convention, invites all who would like to hear problems discussed, experiences narrated. Last week the 17th annual Foreign Trade Council...