Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...process of rebuilding and remodeling old and inefficient blast furnaces is also going on. This has led U. S. steel to dismantle some of its oldest plants in the Pittsburgh district, and to rebuild more efficient ones at Youngstown...
...thousands of persons, apparently, have suddenly conceived the notion of going to Florida this summer, buying some land on a shoestring, splitting it into lots during the fall, and selling at huge profits to a horde of grateful "investors" this winter. In Wall Street this is a familiar process, known technically as "accumulation" and "distribution". It works as long as the investors get real value for their money, and continues for a certain period there- after until the crop of hopeful lambs begins to thin out. Only these who own no Florida land and have no intensions of so doing...
...Berlin, Dr. Karl Mueller claimed to have discovered a process for reducing metal foils to a thinness of one-millionth of a centimetre,* retaining elasticity in foils transparent as oculists' glass. The importance: to telephones, radios, musical instruments; to study of atomic structures...
Again an evening-up process has occurred in gasoline prices. California has been in a position to furnish cargo lots at lie a gallon, which can be shipped to the Atlantic seaboard for 2? a gallon. As a result, Standard Oil of New Jersey has cut its tank-wagon price I? and Standard of New York...
...below cost of production at first, sales were increased rapidly, quantity production economies became possible and presently they were making more money on cheaper cars than before with higher prices. Motor manufacturers cannot stand still. Their motto is and must be: "Quantity production or bust!" The corollary to this process is the elimination of the unfit, and cheaper and cheaper prices to the car buyer...