Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made him a rich man. Vast industries depend upon his inventions. He discovered how to dissolve acetylene in acetone; $20,000,000 worth of dissolved acetylene is sold over the world each year. He invented a way of liquefying air; the Air Reduction Co. has 30 plants using his process, is worth $25,000,000. He created neon lamps; cities and airports now glow redly, to his profit. He put waste coke oven gases under hyperpressures and low temperatures and got pure hydrogen, benzine, ethylene, nitrogen (fertilizer) compounds; vast factories run day & night in France, Belgium, Czechoslovakia...
Artificial Coal. Dr. Friedrich Bergius of Germany heated soft coal, hydrogen and a catalyst under heavy pressure. The coal changed into gasolines, aromatics and other volatile hydrocarbons. This Berginization process the German Dye Trust is using under direction of Dr. Carl Krauch, able chemist, who was at Pittsburgh last week. With him was Dr. Bergius himself to report his further wizardry with hydrocarbons. By heating cellulose and: water or lignin and water, lie produced coal. "End coal" he ; calls it, and, like natural coal he could transmute it into gasoline and other fractional products...
...Process of Law", C. P. Curtis, Harvard...
...Process of Law", C. P. Curtis, Harvard...
Weeding men out in the Law School according to enrollment figures made public this morning is a rapid process. During the last six years Law School classes have lost an average of thirty six percent of their membership during the first year. That the selective means employed have been discriminating as well as swift is witnessed by the fact that second year mortality has averaged less than ten percent...