Word: ens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...piddling Shanks process. The "caliche," or nitrate-bearing earth, is broken up with explosives, loaded into cars by hand. At the plant it is boiled in small tanks to leach out the nitrate, which is then run off as liquor and dried into commercial form. The Guggenheims were not en- thusiastic about the Shanks process. Undoubtedly they thought of Daniel Cowan Jackling and his mass production methods in copper mining (TIME, April 28). They set a staff of engineers and scientists to work. They applied their process in 1926, had it running at full speed in the Oficina Maria Elena...
...Paris, en route to India (where his wife is ill) to continue his painting and archeological trips, Professor Nicholas Constantinovich Roerich, Russian artist-scientist-mystic, founder of Roerich Museum, in Manhattan, learned that a visa for India had been denied him by the British Government, which charged him with sympathy for the Soviets. Said he: "Any person who is even superficially acquainted with the nature of my work and activities for the past 40 years will understand that the allegation of Communism is inconsistent with the truth...
...duty on parts is now much less than on cars, Mr. Ford should be able to worst all U. S. rivals in the Italian market. To complete the Ford-Isotta agreement, Ford's Export Manager Charles E. Sorensen and Sir Percival Perry, general Ford representative throughout Europe, were en route last week to Milan...
...Manhattan. Without warning an airplane dropped from the sky a short distance ahead, landed on the paved highway, taxied toward the Lamb car, its wings barring the way. Driver Lamb swung into a ditch to escape a collision, damaged his car though not himself & family. The airplane pilot, en route from Boston to Chicago, had made a forced "deadstick" landing for lack of fuel. He obtained some at a nearby gasoline station, taxied to a field, flew away, leaving the shocked, shaken Lambs to extricate their car, repair...
...young, high-bred Holstein bull, en route from Pennsylvania to Porto Rico (object: paternity), arrived last week on the Staten Island shore of New York Harbor in a big strong crate on a motor truck. The truck went aboard the ferryboat Nassau. The motion of the ferry excited the bull. It hooked at the crate's slats, then hurled its 1,200 lbs. against the end boards, burst through, charged the truck driver and the ferry's brass-buttoned mate. All passengers and the mate fled to the top deck, leaving the bull snorting and plunging below. Came...