Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three miles off the mainland the Maracaibo anchored. The filibustered loaded their captured arms into the ship's lifeboats and lowered them to the sea, sinking two lifeboats in the process. Capt. Morris and kidnaped Governor Fruytier were left to return to Curaçao or to go anywhere else they pleased. Brash Capt. Urbina attacked the garrison of Vela de Coro, fatally wounded its commander, Gen. Gabriel Lale, and prepared to move forward against Caracas and the formidable ex-Dictator, General Juan Vicente Gomez (TIME...
...still and heated. The molecularly lighter substances are given off, beginning with petroleum ether. Then comes natural gasoline, then the naphthas (from which come motor gasolines), then kerosene, then fuel oil, then gas oil, finally lubricating oil. Coke or asphalt are left as a residue.* Efficiency of the process, of course, depends upon the physical fact that the substances mixed in the crude oil come out separately in the distillation. Before the arrival of the automobile, the distillation process yielded ample gasoline for U. S. needs. But when gasoline supplanted oats as chief transportation fuel, oil men began to experiment...
...through a fish plant, he picked up a handful of fish meal (a hash-like, dry composite of ground up heads, tails and other fishy by-products), remarked: "Isn't it beautiful?" And when, last week, Atlantic Coast Fisheries Co. announced an offering of new stock, the Taylor Process of fish freezing was prominent among its assets...
Fish, being cold-blooded animals, decompose rapidly after removal from their watery homes. To be transported, they must be frozen. Of several fish-freezing methods, the Taylor Process is speediest. The fish are docked, bathed, chopped up, unedible portions being removed and fillets (steaks) left. Then the fillets are put on a flat aluminum plate, on which they travel slowly through the freezing room, like amusement park visitors riding on a scenic railway. Interesting, too, is the scenery, as the walls and ceiling are covered with glittering stalactite formations. But the aluminum boat travels not over water but over calcium...
...fact that the float, which started leaking in the afternoon sank to the bottom of the river before it could be saved. This mishap made it necessary for the crew to launch the boat from the bank and most of the oarsmen were thoroughly drenched in the process...