Word: procession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...process of formation in Chicago was a new local radio chain called the Affiliated Broadcasting Co., headed by Samuel Insull...
Basis for Nickel's success-and also the reason why it is the international nickel company-is the chemical process for separating the copper from the nickel. Two small U. S. companies had the process, but very little nickel; Canada had plenty of nickel but no process. In 1902 Charles Schwab, now Bethlehem Steel's board chairman, helped to promote a merger of the U. S. and Canadian companies. In 1929 the major competitive mine in the Sudbury area was absorbed, and International Nickel reached its present form...
...coal smoke is a costly nuisance. Dr. Furnas foresees cities made clean by complete conversion of coal into fuel gas at the mine, by piping the clean-burning gas to metropolitan centres. Gas distilled from coal leaves a coke residue-which can also be converted by the water-gas process. Currently, artificial gas for heating is a luxury because it takes about $48 worth to equal a ton of coal. Three-fourths of that cost goes for distribution. If it were consumed on a vast scale in factories and homes the cost would be diminished to a point where...
...Transatlantic Tunnel' smacks of the pulpy pages of "Amazing Stories Magazine." A British engineer digs a tunnel under the Atlantic Ocean some time in the near future. He loses his son and estranges his wife in the process, but the tunnel must go through. Then the movie gods smile, and the great achiever is finally reunited with his wife to the strains of "God Save the King" and the "Star Spangled Banner...
Meantime SEC attorneys moved heaven & earth to confine their legal war with holding companies to SEC's own suit against Electric Bond & Share. Nevertheless, process servers with complaints in holding company injunction suits continued to stalk SEC's Washington headquarters. SECommissioner Robert E. Healy perfected the routine of accepting service to the point where he could take the papers without looking up from his work or interrupting a conversation. One deputy marshal from the District of Columbia Supreme Court appeared so often that Mr. Healy's secretary would merely pop her head in his door, wearily announce...