Texas Gulf Sulfur

TGSC Texas Gulf Sulfur Co, New York T-Mun trench munition... 

In 1928, Union Sulfur attempted to re-enter the sulfur business. On November 14, wells were drilled at Boling Dome, but Texas Gulf Sulfur out bid its com-... 

The sulfur industry, at this point, was relatively unknown to the general public a publicity campaign was launched to promote the importance of this exciting industry. The yellow element hit the silver screen in 1941. The U.S. Bureau of Mines supervised the preparation of a motion picture called The Story of Sulfur. The movie was made in cooperation with Texas Gulf Sulfur and showed their state-of-the-art operations at Boling Dome. Another movie about sulfur, called S Is For Sulfur, was produced in 1952, to dociunent the benefits of the Marshall Plan to stimulate sulfur production in Sicily after the Second World War. 

Table 4.4b. Frasch company results - Texas Gulf Sulfur...

While the name Gulf confused the situation of the early history of Freeport Sulfur and Texas Gulf Sulfur, a similar situation arose between Duval Texas Sulfur and Jefferson Lake Sulfur. The word eausing the confusion this time was the corporate use of United. In 1930, the United Gas Corporation had beeome the largest investor in Duval Sulfur five years earlier, the unrelated United Oil Gas Syndicate had been formed and would eventually become known as Jefferson Lake Sulfur ... 

Sulexco reformed in June 1958. The new group included Freeport Sulfur, Texas Gulf Sulfur, Jefferson Lake Sulfur and Duval Texas Sulfur, and handled all exports outside of North America. Their new offices were situated at 375 Paik Avenue in New York City. The first president of the new Sulexco was Peter Black of Freeport Sulfur, until 1962 when Paul W. Douglas of Freeport Sulfur took the job. He was followed by Ernest A. Graupner (1908 - 1981), who had worked for Texas Gulf Sulfur, in 1966 until 1973. 

San Cristobal to Mexican Gulf Sulfur Jaltipan to Pan-American and Salinas to Gulf Sulfur (Azufre Vera Cruz). The only Mexican Frasch company that did not originate from the exploration of the Brady Brothers was CEDI, the Texas Gulf Sulfur operations. The adventures of these Mexican sulfur explorers were presented in a Time Magazine article on February 21, 1955. 

In 1949, Texas Gulf Sulfur reaehed a deal with the Mexican government to mine sulfur in the region of Nopalapa (Cia Exploradora del Istmo CEDI). Finding commereial deposits is very difficult and somewhat haphazard. Not having the advantage of a dome already discovered for them, the first sulfur was not pro-... 

Bill Flill (reopened) Texas Gulf Sulfur 1965 1970 ... 

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