Word: processes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last winter (TIME, Dec. 6). Basis of Lanital is casein, the thick substance in sour, skimmed milk from which cottage cheese is made. Last week the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Dairy Industry applied for a public-service patent on a somewhat similar process for turning casein into synthetic wool...
Thus Leftists last week continued the game of distracting General Franco. As long as they can punch him from one side, make him turn in that direction, then punch him from the other, they can keep him from following his own plan of battle. In the process they might possibly land a lucky haymaker. Meanwhile General Franco, fighting not only the Leftists but the heat which reached 113°, relied chiefly on his sun-baked Moorish riflemen, last week made relatively little progress in straightening out the dents in his fronts...
...wheat'' from flour greatly irks such scientists as Dr. Robert Runnels Williams because it "throws away the mechanism necessary for the metabolism of that starch'' (TIME, July 11). Last week in Chicago, Morris Mills, Inc. demonstrated to the trade for the first time a practical process for making flour without removing the germ. The trade was interested; present were seven foreign consuls, U. S. officials and representatives of 50% of U. S. flour production. Edward Jacob and Edgar Martin Miller, father and son, Missouri millers, invented the process; they interested Dan Brown, former Hearst circulation manager...
Gasoline was first made by distilling crude oil, then by the "casing-head process," next by "cracking," finally by hydrogenation. Cracking, of which hydrogenation is a continuation, consists of breaking down the molecular structure of heavy crude oil into a number of lighter, more salable derivatives such as kerosene and gasoline. Polymerization is the reverse; it takes the very lightweight, gaseous fractions of petroleum, which were formerly wasted or used only in restricted ways,* and through pressure, heat and catalytic agents builds them into heavier molecules for high-test (antiknock) gasoline...
Eying this field, Phillips took out a set of polymerization patents, soon ran up against competing patents owned by Texas Corp., Standard Oil (New Jersey), Standard Oil (Indiana). Rather than wage a costly fight, these four companies pooled their patents under The Polymerization Process Corp., which leases the process. Last fall Phillips Pete put up two massive polymerization units at Kansas City and Borger, Texas, baffled the oil world by turning out 100 octane gas in quantity too great for any known U. S. use. All Chairman Frank Phillips will say is that "the total output is being sold abroad...