Word: procession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because an Indiana governor cannot succeed himself, he would like a seat in the Cabinet, is typical of Franklin Roosevelt's new patronage problem. For this year a new generation of deserving Democrats lays claim to jobs which cannot be supplied by the simple process of ousting Hoover Republicans as they were in 1932. Moreover, Franklin Roosevelt has committed himself to a thorough reorganization of the Government...
...gasoline owned by a pinched oil company, stayed to form his own New York Stock Exchange firm two years later. About him he gathered a group of people mostly oldtime mining men, who also liked long shots. They promoted the centrifugal method of making cast iron pipe, a process which revolutionized that ancient art. They put $2,000,000 into the neutrodyne patents of an obscure Stevens Institute professor named Louis Alan Hazeltine, "the man who took the squeak out of radio...
...profit far more from the work of this cramming than from having a painless filling up on the south side of the Avenue. If they can't well and good. Out they go. As is, they might get their diplomas from the people that do teach them, if the process can be dignified by that word...
...successful investigation of cosmic rays in the upper stratosphere [TIME, Nov. 16], the great reduction in price of stratosphere sounding balloons evidently suggested real news interest. But that price reduction does not mean that manufacturers had formerly been making huge profits; it is result of an entirely new process of manufacture developed by intensive industrial research...
...older balloons were hand-fashioned sheets of rubber stock-a laborious task at best. The new balloons are made by a radically new process perfected by the research laboratories ol he Dewey and Almy Chemical Co. and known as the Kaysam Process. By it, virgin latex is cast to give a hollow ten-inch ball of rubber gel, which can then be expanded by air pressure into a four-foot balloon. After drying and curing it is ready...