Word: processes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Constitutionality of the recently enacted rent control law was hold in "grave doubt" yesterday by Federal Judge Paul Jones in Cloveland, Ohio, taking the part of the landlord in a petition process filed by the housing expediter and the area rent control officer...
...have discovered a process whereby coal production in any mine can be increased by 250% in three months. I took it to the science exhibition upstairs, but they don't want it. Then on my way out I reflected that this process would be more useful to the Marshall plan...
Died. William Leslie Maxson, 49, jovial, rotund engineer and industrialist; of cancer; in Boston. Maxson, for 15 years a U.S. Navy officer, was blessed by dyers for two big aids in long-distance flying: 1) his invention of a process to precook and quick-freeze complete meals for easy preparation during flight; 2) his "robot navigator," a mechanical computer for quick solution of complex celestial navigation problems...
...Creatures of Circumstance, his yarns are as well made as ever, and as full of Maugham's slick brand of irony. Readers will find them useful on long train rides; it is possible to read them while thinking of something else and lose nothing of value in the process. Having nothing to write about, Maugham once wrote in answer to his critics, is "the most inconclusive reason for not writing that I've ever heard...
...give the Bill such an interpretation when it suits their fancy. All parties are to have an equal right before the law, and private persons are not to take over the police function at any time. Every citizen has a great duty to defend orderly process and the law as it stands, changing the law at will as his ideas about his society changes. This is very simple minded and rather 18th century, I'll admit, but no one has demonstrated that an administrative procedure based on mob violence, curbed at intervals by arbitrary police power either in Germany...