Word: nitrogenous
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...pocket" method of vetoing saves a President the trouble, or embarrassment, of saying why he disapproves. Presumably, President Coolidge "pocketed" the Muscle Shoals bill because it called for Federal operation of the Government's Wartime power-plant on the Tennessee River and for Federal manufacture of fixed nitrogen, which is used in fertilizer and explosives. President Coolidge had urged that the Government lease or sell the power plant and let private interests make power, fertilizer, explosives, without Federal competition. Keeping-the-Government-out-of-business is a prime tenet of the Coolidge credo...
After ten years of beating, Congress last week transformed a monster sword into something faintly resembling a plowshare. It was the War Department's $160,000,000 project on the Tennessee River at Muscle Shoals, Ala., a power dam to generate electricity to fix atmospheric nitrogen to make nitrates to make explosives to blow up the Enemy...
...Pennsylvania's Morin to plump the U. S. squarely into the fertilizer business. This brought the National Fertilizer Association buzzing back to Washington in open, indignant lobby. Their case seemed better than the case of the Power lobbyists and the House consented to substitute the words "fixed nitrogen" for "fertilizer." The U. S. would make, as it did during the War, the ingredient of fertilizer and ammunition, not the finished product. Government operation of the power plants was retained and, as the Bill passed the House, a $10,000,000 Government power corporation was set up. Any power left...
...were Italian firms, and from France came the learned Professor L. Bretangnière most hospitable and informatively loquacious was famed Herr Doktor J. Bueb of the "I. G." Herr Doktor Bueb suggested complacently that it is a duty of governments to abolish all tariffs or taxes on nitrogen fertilizers and to secure their transport at preferential freight rates, because the more nitrate fertilization is encouraged the greater will be the agricultural produce derived from a given region. Be coming mildly technical, he pointed with thoroughgoing pride to the new German synthetic fertilizers nitrate of lime and nitrophoska. "The demand...
...nebulae have long been thought by astronomers to be made by a mysterious element which they called nebulium. This idea was exploded by Professor Ira Sprague Bowen, famed physicist colleague of Dr. Millikan. He found the lines are caused by the very familiar elements oxygen and nitrogen. They seemed unfamiliar because, in the rare atmosphere around the stars these elements have room to cut complicated capers, storing up energy for some time, then jumping actively and shooting off rays. In the dense atmosphere of the earth they are always being bumped by, or bumping, other atoms, cannot save their strength...