Word: liquidating
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Father Nieuwland, holding his nose, decided that if he could separate the derivative responsible for the stench, he might have something interesting. Fifteen years later he succeeded: By use of a more highly concentrated mixture he produced a liquid which he called divinylacetylene. Father Nieuwland shook his head, decided it might be good for drying oil or possibly sheep...
...present low price of rubber (about 5^ per Ib.) Duprene would have enough uses to warrant its production on a large scale, could be developed to replace natural rubber entirely in case the U. S. supply were shut off. In addition to Duprene, an artificial latex (mother liquid of rubber) was also produced from chloroprene which can impregnate porous materials that real latex cannot penetrate...
...difference had arisen. Wieland as a chemist worked on dead cell material. When you destroy living cells you get a juice in which combustible materials such as sugar are much more highly concentrated than in the living cell, and by virtue of that higher concentration respiration in that liquid can take place in the absence of iron. ... In the living cell such a high concentration never occurs -and to breathe the living cell must have iron...
...tradition has grown up among the motion picture companies that the life of a newspaperman is one abounding in liquid refreshment and lacking in any excess of work. The reporter as typified by the talking screen is most cynical, always ready with a laughable quip, almost scholarly, inclined to be untidy in his dress, and only at home in a speakeasy. "Platinum Blonde" is a picture that conforms with this tradition, but there seems to be more attention to newspaper routine, and less drinking than usual...
Continental Bank & Trust Co., just merged with dubiously liquid Straus National, showed cash and Governments of 33 millions against deposits of 44 millions. Its call loans to brokers, long the specialty of this so-called "broker's bank," were ten millions. The statement bore a pledge that the bank would continue its old policy of liquidity...