Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This figure was arrived at by making allowance for territorial losses imposed by the Versailles Treaty, the fact being kept in mind that, while some of this territory was agricultural and not highly productive, yet the loss of Al-sace-Lorraine carried with it very large resources of iron ore and potash and industrial works of considerable magnitude, while the occupation of the Saar Basin had deprived Germany of extensive coal deposits...
...fact also was taken into consideration that in losing part of Silesia Germany lost many industrial plants and large iron and zinc deposits, and 42 1/2% of all German coal lying within 500 yards of the surface. Allowance was made also for the depreciation in buildings and structures and the decreased productivity of agricultural lands...
...trace the transference of fear from one object to another, a rabbit was given a child and at the same time an iron bar was banged against a piece of metal. This was repeated. The child confused the noise, which he feared, with the rabbit, made the same response to both. This process of association was also used to effect cures. One baby, long under observation, was afraid of fur or anything resembling fur. The cure consisted in bringing animals into his presence while he ate., A lump of sugar was given to him and an animal brought close...
There has been much conjecture in Germany, however, on just this point of cheapening Miethe's process. Over ten years ago an engineer named Lohmann built an electrical smelting furnace which succeeded in dissolving iron, aluminum, sodium and other metals into new and dif- ferent substances, as well as making diamonds out of wolframite. The latest model of Lohmann's furnace can create a heat of 4,000 degrees centigrade. German scientists are debating what will happen when Miethe's experiment is tried in Lohmann's furnace...
...process consists in a special method of treating chromite, a natural iron ore with a chromium content, in such a way as to preserve the desired percentage of chromium. Ronald Wild asserts that the process is cheap enough so that "rustless tubes, automobiles and even ships" are possible...