Word: by-product
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...Cizek says four is not too young to start active work. Then they are unspoiled by comic strips and jazz. For 20 years he has been turning out successful artists, but only as a by-product of a school where creative expression is the real goal...
...Chemical Engineering Industries, Materials of Construction, Chemistry in Commerce. Classes of students from nearby universities were personally conducted by their professors. The General Electric Co. showed an automatic welding apparatus and an electric steam generator. The Anaconda Copper Co. demonstrated methods of roasting sulphurous copper ore to secure by-product sulphuric acid, with which superphosphate fertilizers are made. Eimer & Amend, instrument manufacturers, displayed a photomicrographic camera, to be attached to an ordinary microscope. The Research Corporation, organized to market new inventions, exhibited an electric precipitator for dried milk and a caterpillar drive adjustable at any time, for getting automobile trucks...
...conference of the Gold and Silver Committee called by Senator Oddie is to consider means of stimulating production, which has fallen off since the Treasury ceased its purchases at the artificial price of one dollar an ounce. The depression in the silver industry is world-wide however. Since the War production has never come within 10% of its pre-war quantity. Senator Oddie points out that since silver is largely a by-product of copper, lead and other mines, the depression of silver prices is likely to increase the prices of most non-ferrous metals...
Ever since the crash in 1920, the leather companies have been in almost continuous difficulties. Addeo to their huge losses on inventory values is the fact that since leather is a by-product of the meat and other industries, the leather trade cannot regulate the supply of raw hides with the same ease as other industries regulate their sources of supply. Moreover, the new styles in women's shoes make for a reduced use of leather, and automobile manufacturers are employing painted cloth and leather substitutes to a greater degree than formerly...
...mean to imply by this that competitions are intended primarily for social purposes. The work is both hard and exacting and he who undertakes it merely to enjoy himself is bound to be disappointed in the results. Opportunities for forming friendships are nonetheless offered--but they are a "by-product" rather than the chief purpose of the competitions. To the Freshman or Sophomore who comes out for the CRIMSON competitions which begin this evening we can say two things: first, he will find he has a worthwhile job on his hands; and second, he will probably discover in the process...