Word: processed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the growing rigidities, of our economic structure and the psychology which is at once its cause and effect have made the unhampered self-adjustment of that system impossible, and that this necessitates a series of grim, not certainly successful, attempts at the control of this structure. In this process of experimentation, more failures than victories would not be surprising, and it is sure that the consumer as such is in for a time of hard sledding. These facts are trite, but they are facts, nonetheless, and known for that by those who, in Washington and elsewhere feel the pressure...
...vice versa. But their work is the same. It consists of sewing the soles of shoes to the upper leather while the shoes are inside out, then turning them right side out. In operation last week in a long neat shoe factory in Manhattan was a new process which gave high & low bench workers alike something entirely different to do, promised to revolutionize present methods of making shoes...
...ahead of the first; so he cut in. The other backed up to let him get to the curb. They were both next to the curb when the one in back got up full steam and crashed into the other. This one backed right back at him and this process went on until finally both got out and started using their fists. In the meantime three other taxis had received leads and two more still had cruised up to the stand...
Died. Fritz Haber, 65, Germany's foremost Wartime chemist, 1919 Nobel prizewinner, inventor of a process for the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen and of several poison gases, co-inventor of the Haber-Bosch synthetic ammonia process; in Basle, Switzerland...
...teaching. Then War came. War-hating son of war-hating parents, James Conant promptly marched to Washington to enlist in the ranks. A scientific friend called him a "blithering idiot," turned him over to the Chemical Warfare division in which he became a major at 25. He developed the process by which the A. E. F. was supplied with mustard-gas. Later, in "The Mousetrap," an old motor factory near Cleveland surrounded by barbed wire and mystery, he worked 18 hr. a day, slept in his laboratory, managed his jittery subordinates with tact and understanding. Too late...