Word: processes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Making rayon out of nitrocellulose is a delicate chemical process involving the use of ether, alcohol and acids. A sudden shut-down at Hopewell ruined not only the material being processed but collodion solidified in the pipe lines and spinning pumps, and the acids ate into the neglected machinery...
...reduce theatre admission prices and to attempt to improve the quality of entertainment in the effort to attract more people into the theatres. To accomplish this, the producers invited the public with glamorous and more glamorous personalities. Producers discovered that the creation of such personalities was a costly process and that, moreover, once created, they were always open to the predatory raids of competing producers...
...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...
...businessmen familiar with the localities in which its subsidiaries operated. Month before another of United's big affiliates, Commonwealth & Southern Corp., accepted the resignation of three bankers for the same reason. Last week the directors of United, a majority of whom are bankers, met in Manhattan and reversed the process. They accepted the resignation of three active utility men on United Corp.'s board of directors, Presidents Philip Green Gossler of Columbia Gas & Electric, Thomas N. McCarter of Public Service of New Jersey and John Edward Zimmermann of United Gas Improvement...
...committees' plan for a course in sex and family education to last from first grade through college. A few delegates made reservations. Director Lyman Lloyd Bryson of California Association for Adult Education feared that "the tendency toward over-intellectualization of sex education for children has robbed the sex process of emotional drive...