Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chardonnet, who dissolved nitrocellulose in an organic solvent, forced the solution through fine holes, finally obtaining long fibres which were spun into threads (Tubize). The viscose process (treating cotton with caustic soda and carbon disulphide) was patented eight years later by two U. S. chemists. Later a third method (little used today) was found using copper hydroxide and ammonia, and still later came a fourth in which the final product is not cellulose but cellulose acetate. Viscose rayon leads in U. S. production; the costlier acetate rayon?of which Du Font's much publicized fabric "Acele" is an example?...
...longer, naprapaths were permitted to practice in Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, California, Oregon. Last year when Founder Smith tried to get a license for a disciple to practice in Iowa he admitted: "No State at the present time issues licenses to naprapaths except Kentucky. . . . This is not only a method of treatment of human ailments. I have cured horses...
...they damn them with the faint praise of competence. I have a notion that it is the definiteness of their form. . . . My prepossessions in the arts are on the side of law and order. I like a story that fits. ... I am not unaware of the disadvantages of this method. It gives a tightness of effect that is sometimes disconcerting. You feel that life does not dovetail into its various parts with such neatness. ... It is certain that sometimes it gives you a sensation of airlessness. . . ." Many a reader or re-reader of these tales will find them good stories...
...Tubize Chatillon Corp.) made rayon yarn at Hopewell. By last April, when labor troubles first visited Tubize Chatillon, it was third largest manufacturer of this material in the U. S. Then a United Textile Workers' Union was formed at Hopewell, began to solicit members. The company objected to the method of solicitation. Its workers, it claimed, were thrashed if they refused to join up. Some non-union employes were not allowed to enter or leave their homes. Others the company undertook to smuggle out of town for their own safety...
...approaching that of light. The beam, according to Tesla, would drop an army in its tracks, bring down squadrons of airplanes 250 miles away. Inventor Tesla would discharge the ray by means of: 1) a device to nullify the impeding effect of the atmosphere on the particles; 2) a method for setting up a high potential; 3) a process for amplifying that potential to 50,000,000 volts; 4) creation of "a tremendous electrical repelling force." Two of these are complete in Dr. Tesla's mind. The other two await minor details...