Word: processes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chatter today of reactionaries conservatives, liberals, and radicals. . . . A 'reactionary' in ordinary times is a gentleman who wants to re-establish the status quo ante. The New Deal wants to do precisely that-as a matter of fact it is status quo George III or Diocletian. The process has not attained the label of 'liberal.' . . . They are dumdum words used to assassinate men and then to plant bitter onions on their graves...
Modern radium extraction is a highly complex process, started with big ovens, reaction vats, filter presses and decanters, working down to delicately controlled processes in vessels hardly larger than thimbles. When the concentration of radium is as high as 1%, trained chemists take over the job, wearing protective gloves and clothing and working intermittently to avoid injury from the potent gamma, beta and alpha rays. The final product is not pure radium but 90 to 94% pure radium bromide...
...made possible by the policy of arbitrarily increasing wages, shortening hours and reducing efficiency, without regard to the effect on real prices. Higher real wages and shorter hours-highly desirable objectives-are a by-product of technological advance. It is an evolutionary and cannot be a revolutionary process...
...becoming affianced to a rich nincompoop is to provide financial succor for her father and his friends. Actually Duke, who falls in love with Carol, is quite right but Carol's reasoning has been subconscious rather than calculating. Convincing her where her true interest lies is a lengthy process which entails horse races in Kentucky and Florida, cocktail hour in the United States Bar at Saratoga, an uproarious episode in a Miami hotel room, nocturnal yearling auctions at Saratoga, and a superb horse race after which, by lightening her fiance's pocketbook by $100,000, Duke finally makes...
SUGAR IN THE AIR-E. C. Large- Scribner ($2.50). Sulphurous story, weakened by phantasy and chemical jargon, about a young English chemist in the hands of slick promoters for whom he develops a process which makes sugar...