Word: processes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fight to make the world safe for such tyranny as the British practice in Palestine-they send people to rot in concentration camps without trial or even charge, confiscate, search and loot without process of law. Americans once revolted for less...
Reversing the usual process in academic circles, Professor F.D. Cheeney, a visiting Professor studying at the Graduate School of Education, was thrown by the bull. Cheeney, who hails from the wild hinterlands of Colorado, was intrigued by the challenge coming over the ether lately; "Can you ride Big Syd?" and tossed his name in the hat over at Brave's Field where the Rodeo is being held...
...Percentage. An old hand at the tricky process of bringing buyers, sellers, property, and capital together, Zeckendorf spent five years getting his $50,000,000 project under way. Toughest job was getting control of the property, which he began to buy piecemeal soon after he got the idea. To get the holdout 10% he will either have to pay a fancy high price or get help from the city through condemnation proceedings...
Tanners found themselves in a sorry fix. With leather prices (which had risen 4%) also back under ceilings, they could not process and resell their expensive hides at a profit. So they held them. But neither could they buy any more raw hides; foreign prices were too high and no hides were offered by domestic producers. Despite record slaughterings, packers were reluctant to sell...
...Army was using up its captured V-2s, growing wise and skilled in the process. When the last are gone, rockets of U.S. design should be ready to better the V-2s' records, in the invasion of the ionosphere. "One of 'our most important projects," said Air General George C. Kenny, U.S. member of the United Nations Military Staff Committee, "is in the field of guided missiles...