Word: outstripped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...synthetic competition mount, in Germany, in the U. S., until in 1929 Chile provided only 25% of the world production of all forms of nitrates. A new threat loomed at Hopewell, Va., where Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. has built a vast nitrogen fixation plant which might in time outstrip even the I. G. Farben. The industry was overproduced. A long monopoly had been broken; the effects were manifest throughout the entire structure of Chilean economics. Last week, in Paris, form was given to the most recent, most ambitious, of all efforts to remedy this desperate situation. There was projected...
...reads as if it had been exceedingly well translated). The hero is not so much the man as the idea, Napoleon. Not that Author Delteil warps the facts of history; but he gives them an original and Delteilish emphasis. Napoleon's driving dream, he says, was to outstrip Alexander, to conquer the East. "From the cradle to the grave he was impelled by one secret devouring thought: India." Europe kept getting in his way, but that was an accident. "What a man does in life is but a sketch-sometimes even the contrary-of what he dreams. We dream...