Word: processes
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From Louisville the ditty and the tune spread far and wide throughout the land. By a process of corruption it became a schoolroom classic which moppets sang as follows...
...nitrocellulose process for making rayon was patented in 1884 by Count Hilaire de 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?...
...Spain sent her best blood to the New World; practical extermination of the aboriginal inhabitants; importation of African slaves for agricultural labor; subsequent liberation of these slaves and the gradual appearance of more or less mixed blood. The only difference I see in Puerto Rico is that, since the process has on the whole been going on for a couple of hundred years more than in the continental U. S., the proportion of those having mixed blood is higher than in any of the States. But the pure black and the pure white still exist, just as they...
...Treasury has authority, under legislation passed last session, to buy as much as 1,000,000,000 ounces of silver and to issue certificates against it. But virtually nothing has been done and a deflationary process is increasing in vigor...
...Ellin Mackay, singlehanded, did not put The New Yorker on its unsteady feet. Her contribution merely coincided with the beginnings of Editor Ross's success in getting what he wanted by a chaotic process of elimination. The process is described by FORTUNE...