Word: extractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rhine-Prussia Corp.'s new plant now building will extract from coal 70.000 tons of gasoline and 20,000 tons of byproducts annually, is to be a major supply link in the Fatherland's Rearmament...
...Once upon a time life with the vitamins was simple. One drank pine needle tea (or vitamin C extract) to cure his scurvy. Now the average vitamin student is afflicted with as many alphabetical vitamins as Job was with boils...
...politics ahead of economics. Conservative Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain is none too pleased that the Chinese Government has now taken in the Chinese Communists and that envoys dash by chartered plane between Nanking and Moscow. Although President Roosevelt was offering the United Kingdom the chance of the century to extract the U. S. from isolation and team it up with Great Britain, this week Downing Street had its careful fingers crossed...
...felt they were the chief butt of what had been launched from Chicago. The Japanese Foreign Office specializes in reasoned replies, few of which ever seem reasonable to Occidentals, and its specialists cheerfully went to work last week. They always bear in mind that Japanese authorities in China always extract from Chinese officials who happen to be at their mercy treaties, pledges and written or oral agreements. This has been going on not merely for years but for generations, and usually not only the Japanese but also the Chinese refuse to divulge the texts. It was with reference to this...
...into the stalk from the tip across the wound gap. The fact that a special substance, instead of a vague irritant, was involved was first clearly demonstrated by Paál of Hungary. In 1925 Seubert of Germany found plant-stimulating substances outside of plants-in saliva, pepsin, malt extract, diastase. These substances were christened "auxins" by Kögl of Holland's Utrecht University, where much of the pioneer work on them was done. In 1928 a tall, dark young man named Fritz Warmolt Went, who began his botanical career at Utrecht under the tutelage of a distinguished...