Word: procession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet Union was busy winding up 1935 with Russia's most recent and most sweeping innovation since the so-called "liquidation of the kulaks" and "fulfillment of the First Five-Year Plan." The great new addition to vocabularies: Stakhanovism. To liquidate the kulaks was a bloody, brutal process in which Russia's more prosperous small farmers were shot by the thousands and deported to Siberia by the hundreds of thousands for opposing Dictator Joseph Stalin's will to force every last Russian peasant into a collective farm (TIME. Nov. 26. 1928 et seq.). Today a fresh battle...
Nearly 75% of U. S. oranges, though ripe, edible and juicy, are partially or completely green in color, would sell at a disadvantage against no better but more appealing fruit. When these oranges have received the Color Process (dipping in a solution of food-color) they emerge as yellow as ever an orange grew. Color Process machinery is one of the many leased specialties of Food Machinery Corp., world's largest maker of mechanical aids to food growing, handling, packing and canning...
...producer as well as seller of evaporated milk is Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., and the A. & P. is a big customer for Food Machinery's equipment for sterilizing canned milk. In this process, cans are heated, sterilized, cooled, labeled and cased in 47 minutes. Though Food Machinery's method has been used only since 1924, it accounted for more than half the 1935 evaporated milk output (2,000,000,000 cans plus...
...amalgamation of many food machinery companies. Food Machinery Corp. somewhat resembles, on smaller scale, United Shoe Machinery Corp., particularly since many of its most important items are not sold but leased. Food Machinery leases the Color Process (orange packers pay 2? a case), the milk sterilizer (2? a case), the Peach Pitter, the Pear Machine. Last week Food Machinery announced that its sales for 1935 (year ending Sept. 30) were up 29% from 1934; its lease income up 70%. Sales were $6,486,000; lease-income was $1,041,000, not counting the partly-owned Peach Pitter; total income...
...Lashar purchased Parsons Non-Skid Co. Ltd., of London, became international leader in his special field. American Chain made all kinds of chains, including chains for anchors. With German U-boats creating an abnormal demand for new shipping, American Chain worked out a semi-automatic process for quick anchor-chain production, supplied the entire Wartime anchor-chain requirements of the U. S. Government. Shortly after the Armistice, Mr. Lashar issued an advertisement headed "The Honor in Our Discharge from the Service," said that the company was "poorer in pocketbook" on account of government contracts, that "there has been no taint...